Drug News

updated 8:23 p.m. EDT, Mon July 20, 2009 “U.S. authorities have ratcheted up pressure on one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels, releasing new details about the so-called Gulf Cartel’s operations and offering up to a $50 million reward for the arrest of its leaders.” View Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/us.mexico.cartel.reward/index.html

By Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne DrashCNN “Morrison didn’t buy his drugs on a street corner or get them from a dope dealer. He got them mostly from dentists he had never met. He says he’d scroll through the phone book calling dentist after dentist until one would prescribe him pain medication.“I kind of found out…

by The Associated PressSunday, July 19, 2009 “A nurse is accused of stealing drugs from Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital.Assistant District Attorney Jack Schmidt told Judge Keith Levy that Peppenger entered a treatment program that year for an addiction to hydrocodone, a narcotic pain reliever.” View Article: http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10752002&nav=menu510_2

Matthew Clayfield July 21, 2009Article from: The Australian “A ONE-YEAR-OLD boy who died of a drug overdose had been administered both morphine and methadone for at least the last three months of his life.Police initially suspected the boy had died from sudden infant death syndrome, but an autopsy showed he had died from a cocktail…

With opium production soaring — and funding Taliban activities — the U.S. is sending dozens of DEA agents to help break trafficking rings, a shift in policy from crop eradication. By Josh Meyer July 20, 2009 “Reporting from Washington — The U.S. government is deploying dozens of Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Afghanistan in a…

By Juan ForeroWashington Post Foreign ServiceSunday, July 19, 2009 “BOGOTA, Colombia, July 18 — A report for the U.S. Congress on drug smuggling through Venezuela concludes that corruption at high levels of President Hugo Chávez’s government and state aid to Colombia’s drug-trafficking guerrillas have made Venezuela a major launching pad for cocaine bound for the…

“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Monday that it was putting four drug cartel leaders operating in Mexico on a special sanctions list to try to clamp down on drug dealing and violence.” View Article: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56J3VM20090720

AOL News “When Rhonda and Jason Holt started their family in the Winchester, Tenn., home they bought in 2004, they couldn’t understand why they and their children were hit by mysterious illnesses.Rhonda started getting migraines. Her husband had problems with his kidneys. And the three children they had, now ages 4, 2 and 1, had…

“The arrest of a Las Vegas physician in a massive prescription drug investigation is shedding light on the growing problem of prescription drug abuse.Prosecutors say Dr. Albert Yeh is a drug dealer hiding behind his medical degree. The DEA says the doctor was no different than a dealer peddling poison on the street corner. View…

“The number of illegal drug users in a community, including the types of drugs ingested can be measured in municipal wastewater before it’s treated and filtered. A team of researchers in Oregon analyzed samples of wastewater for drug excretion in communities across the state, identifying the towns with the most number of high-as-a-kite residents.” View…