Yazılar

The empty glassine packets can be found in Manhattan, Brooklyn and beyond, scattered on streets and sidewalks with only obscure slogans or graphic images to suggest their former use. At one time they contained heroin and the markings stamped on the packets were meant to differentiate strains of varying purity or provenance. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/arts/design/23heroin.html

Abuse of prescription pain relievers is soaring in the United States, according to what health officials call “alarming findings” in a new report. Visits to hospital emergency departments involving nonmedical use of prescription narcotic pain relievers more than doubled between 2004 and 2008, according to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…

Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials, federal agents tell Fox News. “To say that this area is out of control is an understatement,” said an agent…

State leaders will launch a campaign that could include TV and radio spots to warn about the dangers of a legal yet potent drug that has been linked to the recent death of an Indianola teen. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100622/NEWS/6220352/-1/CLIVE/State-officials-set-their-sights-on-banning-K2

Police arrested a man at Dulles Airport on Thursday for trying to smuggle cocaine past security in powdered soup packets. According to the LaCrosse Tribune, customs dogs identified the man, who was traveling to El Salvador, as a suspect. This attempt, although creative, is far from the first imaginative drug-smuggling attempt. Check out a few…

A medication called Sativex has become the first drug fully approved for multiple sclerosis that is made from natural cannabis. The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approved the drug, an oral spray, on Friday, and it went on sale in the country on Monday. The drug has been available in Canada on…

Drug cartel activity along the Mexican border presents serious security threats to the area’s water supply system, particularly on federally-owned lands in southern Texas, a U.S. lawmaker says. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/drug-cartel-activity-threatens-texas-water-supplies-lawmaker-says/?test=latestnews

Beyond the warring gangs and struggle for drug-trafficking routes, here are five things about Mexico’s drug war that may surprise you. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/100617/drug-war-twitter-immigration

KABUL, Afghanistan — The last several years of poverty, conflict and widely available opium are taking a toll on the Afghan population, with roughly 800,000 Afghan adults now using opium, heroin and other illicit drugs, a jump from five years ago, according to a study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/world/asia/22afghan.html?src=mv

About 3,500 acres of southern Arizona have been closed off to U.S. citizens due to increased violence at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials have warned visitors in Arizona to beware of heavily armed drug smugglers and human traffickers. http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/arizona/buenosaires/PDFs/Closure.pdf