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Traffickers in Mexico and Canada increasingly are using Indian reservations along the borders as conduits for bringing marijuana, Ecstasy and other illicit drugs into the U.S. The drug gangs take advantage of weak and underfunded tribal police forces and the remoteness of tribal lands, and they find that high unemployment rates and resentment of federal…

The White House kicked off a new anti-drug program aimed at getting teens to stay above the influence. http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12665501

MEXICO CITY — An explosion of drug violence in Mexico has killed hundreds of people in the past five days and prompted the country’s president to issue a 5,000-word manifesto warning that the fight against organized crime must continue “or we will always live in fear.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/06/16/VI2010061601595.html?sid=ST2010061600270#

America’s drug abusers are going gray. The proportion of people admitted to treatment for drug abuse who are aged 50 or over nearly doubled between 1992 and 2008, a new government study says. http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/jun/15/drug-abuse-admissions-among-people-50-and-over/

Push to test employees in safety-sensitive positions still making its way through Canadian system. Dan Scott, of Seveny Scott Lawyers in Edmonton, who has acted for labour unions, says he believes big oil companies will continue to bring in new testing policies, even if they could face sanctions from human-rights tribunals. The reason, he suggests,…

Mexico’s drug cartels are becoming increasingly skilled at ambushing police and soldiers, luring them into traps, cutting off escape routes with flaming vehicles and overwhelming their targets in commando-style raids.The attacks have driven the death toll of police and soldiers to record levels this year and fueled fears that government forces, often outgunned by the…

A Justice Department review has found that a multi-agency drug intelligence center in El Paso, Texas, assigned to monitor illegal drug trafficking, suffered from “several significant weaknesses” — including unstaffed key offices and important information that agencies never shared. http://abcnews.go.com/News/article/texas-drug-enforcement-office-disorganized-hindered-interdiction-efforts/story?id=10923661

Fifteen suspected drug gang members were killed in a shootout with Mexican soldiers on Tuesday in western Mexico in the latest fatal clash between warring cartels and federal forces. http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico

Coca cultivation is surging once again in this country’s remote tropical valleys, part of a major repositioning of the Andean drug trade that is making Peru a contender to surpass Colombia as the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/americas/14peru.html

Border seizures of methamphetamine are surging after years of decline, indicating that the drug once seen as a poor man’s cocaine drummed up in backwoods U.S. kitchens is becoming a key export of Mexican drug traffickers. The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates the vast majority of all U.S. meth seized now originates in Mexico, with increasing…