• Illegal fentanyl is often mixed into street drugs like heroin, cocaine, and meth. (healthlinkbc.ca)
  • Cairi, who ran heroin from Mexico to New England for years with her husband, describes herself as "Totally the opposite of what you would think of as a drug dealer -- a straight-A student from New Hampshire. (cracked.com)
  • A drugs bust on the Indian Ocean, described as the biggest in New Zealand's naval history, seized 260 kilograms of heroin worth a reported NZ$235 million in June. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Lieutenant Commander Mike Peebles, the executive officer of HMNZS Te Kaha, says a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report provided heroin price information for the United States market from 2012. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Using a price of US$800 per gram for pure heroin, they calculated the value of the 80 percent pure drugs they had seized would be US$640 per gram. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • In some areas of the country we have already seen how bureaucrats have "tightened down" on the diversion of legal prescription items to the street, only to find that those who abuse will shift to another substance, typically heroin, cocaine, crack, or marijuana - all Schedule I substances and illegal - whose use/abuse is growing at a geometric rate. (drugtopics.com)
  • Drug overdose deaths have increased also with synthetic opioids (other than methadone), cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and other narcotic drugs. (acc.org)
  • Drugs such as cocaine or heroin are outlawed because it is of no benefit to them (unless they allow opium to be grown in Afghanistan to create wealth for "allied" war-lords who, may or may no be, fighting the Taliban). (c4ss.org)
  • The oil industry has brought high-paying jobs to St. John's, as well as a sudden and dramatic spike in the cocaine trade. (cbc.ca)
  • Tim Hogan says St. John's has emerged as the dominant cocaine market in Atlantic Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • Cocaine has trumped other drugs in the city's growing illicit trade, RCMP and Royal Newfoundland Constabulary investigators told CBC News. (cbc.ca)
  • Tim Hogan, a veteran investigator with the RNC, said problems with cocaine - as well as other drugs, including the prescription pill OxyContin, which remains a stubborn presence - have folded into other troubles, particularly crime. (cbc.ca)
  • The level of violence that's out there, the level of drug usage that's out there, the level of needle usage that's out there, the amount of cocaine that people are putting up their nose, OxyContin they are putting in their arms - the crimes that they are committing to get the money to be able to buy these drugs - it would blow your mind,' Hogan said in an interview. (cbc.ca)
  • Where a bust of a kilogram of cocaine - which is about the size of a hardcover book, and which police said has a local street value of more than $100,000 - was once substantial, it's now common for police to seize as much as nine kilograms at a time. (cbc.ca)
  • But it is cocaine that has moved into the starring role of the St. John's drug business, with dealers moving multiple kilograms - known as keys - of the drug at a time, often directly from other provinces. (cbc.ca)
  • Police in St. John's say cocaine seizures have become larger and more frequent. (cbc.ca)
  • I was in drug section many years ago and we didn't see very much cocaine at all,' she said. (cbc.ca)
  • It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • they cite availability, low cost, and a longer duration of action than cocaine as reasons for their drug preference. (medscape.com)
  • It makes sense that a kilogram of cocaine bought in Colombia can be obtained a lot more cheaply than a kilo of the same drug hitting the streets of a city like New York. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • According to the 2015 Global Drug Survey, which covers 50 countries, Australia and New Zealand are some of the most expensive countries in the world to buy ecstasy or cocaine. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Our goal for this program is to expose the fraud, misdirection, and the liars whose support for drug war empowers our terrorist enemies, enriches barbarous cartels, and gives reason for existence to tens of thousands of violent US gangs who profit by selling contaminated drugs to our children. (drugtruth.net)
  • what law enforcement agencies and politicians hope to achieve against the cartels is limited, and falls short of the obvious attack the US could make in its war on drugs: go after the money. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The U.S. government has been so adamant on fighting drug cartels because they are of no benefit to the existing order and pose a threat due to their increasing power, wanting to let everyone know who is in charge. (c4ss.org)
  • Guatemala, which has been able to reduce crime by 23 percent with more money budgeted for law enforcement, has been particularly hard hit by the violent spillover of the Mexican drug-trafficking cartels' activities. (elpais.com)
  • The drug cartels in Southeast Asia have weathered the pandemic in part because of good planning. (nhpr.org)
  • If you or someone you're close to uses opioids or street drugs, these ideas may help protect them. (healthlinkbc.ca)
  • Opioids are a class of drugs, and simply defined, they're a class of drugs that act on opioid receptors. (cdc.gov)
  • The actual numbers, as recently reported in Health Affairs, are alarming: between 1999 and 2016, a 274 percent increase in nonopioid drug deaths and a 371 percent increase in opioid drug deaths. (acc.org)
  • The potent synthetic opioid drug, fentanyl, which is available by prescription, is relatively inexpensive to manufacture. (cdc.gov)
  • Overwhelmingly, the evidence shows they have reduced harm from intravenous drug use in these places, so is it time to consider their introduction in New Zealand? (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • They are public facilities and - especially as part of a wider public awareness campaign - could lift the veil of secrecy over intravenous drug use and help the public understand the humane intent of harm-reduction initiatives in New Zealand. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Lastly, some form of registering to use an SIS service would provide vital information, greatly enhancing our understanding of the intravenous drug use situation in New Zealand and forming a more solid basis for research and evidence-based health policy. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Admittedly, New Zealand's intravenous drug use scene is quite different from those in Europe, Australia and Canada, but the practice is widespread, judging by the quantity of needles that pass through our exchanges, and our rates of overdose are worrying. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The evidence seems pretty compelling that supervised injection sites (SISs) have been successful at reducing intravenous drug use harm overseas, but that doesn't mean they should be introduced here as a priority - and that's mainly because New Zealand's intravenous drug use situation is quite unique. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Sarah Gregory] I understand that ilegal intravenous drug use has become endemic and this has created a surge in deaths and infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Ilicit use of intravenous drugs has long been a problem in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to the staggering number of overdose deaths, acute and chronic infections can be transmitted by intravenous, or IV, drug use. (cdc.gov)
  • Sarah Gregory] Your article specifically discusses candidemia infections associated with intravenous drug use. (cdc.gov)
  • Stuart Levitz] Wel, as a physician specializing in infectious diseases, I see a lot of infections associated with il icit intravenous drug use. (cdc.gov)
  • And then, after reviewing the records, what she found was that 24 of those 198 cases had a history of ilicit intravenous drug use. (cdc.gov)
  • But in the United States the drug reform movement, if one can call it that, is sharply focused on marijuana and not on drug prohibition as a whole. (drugwarrant.com)
  • And I'm hoping to recruit other, I don't know, officials, ministers, cops, wardens, others that feel as I do that we are way off track, and I'm hoping that our next guest will agree with me that we have really failed the populace with our perspective on this eternal prohibition of drugs. (drugtruth.net)
  • we legitimately worry about the consequences of the illicit trade in drugs -- which is to say, the consequences of prohibition. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • The criminalization of responsible drug users is only one of the many pointless aspects of drug prohibition. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • For a more detailed explanation of the points discussed below, see " How Drug Prohibition Finances and Otherwise Enables Terrorism, " Submission to the Senate of Canada Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, October 29, 2001). (cfdp.ca)
  • 1. Laws prohibiting drugs ("drug prohibition") have enriched criminal organizations around the world by creating an enormously lucrative illegal market ("black market") in drugs. (cfdp.ca)
  • Remember that it is drug prohibition that generates huge profits for these groups. (cfdp.ca)
  • Without prohibition, the drug trade could not finance terrorism to any significant degree, since profits from the legal sale of drugs would be a small fraction of the profits that are generated in the black market created by prohibition. (cfdp.ca)
  • Politicians and policymakers typically don't appear to understand -- or they deliberately choose to ignore -- this central point about how prohibition creates such a lucrative black market in drugs. (cfdp.ca)
  • the December 2001 report of Canada's Auditor General on Canada's drug strategy, which also completely overlooks or ignores this link between prohibition and terrorism. (cfdp.ca)
  • The report simply states instead that the drug trade -- with no mention of the central role of prohibition -- helps finance terrorism. (cfdp.ca)
  • In Colombia, profits flowing from drug production and sales (made so lucrative by prohibition) have financed the purchase of weapons by violent paramilitaries and guerillas, corrupted government and police, and supported campaigns of terror ( see this Human Rights Watch report , for example) within Colombia. (cfdp.ca)
  • what do you call someone who appeals to unpopular desires and prejudices (drug legalization is still rather unpopular and prejudiced is it not? (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • As states around the country begin to reform their drug laws and the majority of voters now support legalization on a national level, it's always interesting to try and analyze the root of this shift in the social consciousness. (loudnewsnet.com)
  • We either continue doing what we have done for the past 50 years or try out new things, and those new things should focus on the legalization of drugs. (elpais.com)
  • When assessing whether and how to act to address safety problems associated with alcohol and other drug use, Canadian employers and government decision makers have considerable data at their fingertips. (druglibrary.net)
  • Specific survey findings in the transportation sector, including alcohol and drug use patterns and reported impacts, will be examined, as will implications for policy decisions. (druglibrary.net)
  • seven out of ten knew drivers who had worked while affected by alcohol, half knew drivers who drink during their shift, and three quarters of respondents reported drug use has compromised safety. (druglibrary.net)
  • Adding to this, a comprehensive workplace study in Alberta found 2.4% of transportation workers reported drinking on the job in the past month, 11% were current drug users, 27% knew a coworker with an alcohol problem, 10% with a drug problem, and nearly one quarter felt there was a moderately to extremely serious problem with drugs and alcohol in their own workplace. (druglibrary.net)
  • A small percentage reported their own use of a substance had caused and accident or near miss in the past year, while a significantly higher percentage reported alcohol or drug use by a member of their immediate work group had caused accidents or other negative effects. (druglibrary.net)
  • As they determine how to address safety problems associated with alcohol and other drug use on the job, Canadian employers can turn to the considerable data now available from the research community to assist them in both assessing the problem and formulating solutions. (druglibrary.net)
  • liability for the actions of impaired employees in the course of their work, due diligence responsibility around workplace safety, actions in response to possession or trafficking, and responsibilities with regard to employees with a disability, which in Canada can include dependency on drugs and alcohol). (druglibrary.net)
  • This is where the scientific research on the effects of alcohol and other drugs on human performance, and the field studies of the specific impacts of alcohol and drug use in the workplace, including accident data, play a valuable role. (druglibrary.net)
  • A third very important contributor to understanding the problem is provided by employees themselves, through their responses to rigourous, scientifically valid surveys on the nature and extent of alcohol and drug use in Canadian workplaces and its impact on job performance, as well as their views on possible solutions. (druglibrary.net)
  • Drug Free Business provides a company with everything it needs to achieve a comprehensive drug-free workplace program, and/or comply with Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated testing regulations, including substance abuse policy development, supervisor training, drug, and alcohol testing, Medical Review Officers, random selections, FCRA compliant background screening, and employee assistance programs (EAP's). (drugfreebusiness.org)
  • The residential drug and alcohol treatment center and detox facility teaches individuals to free themselves of a life of addiction through accountability, honesty, and action. (projectknow.com)
  • Drugs and alcohol have widespread effects throughout your body, including but not limited to the addiction and/or physical/psychological dependence that develops with substance abuse over time. (projectknow.com)
  • These two terms describe a person who is not only addicted to drugs or alcohol, but also has a mental or emotional illness, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, etc. (projectknow.com)
  • Facilities that treat patients with dual-diagnosis or co-occurring disorders provide psychiatric treatment in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation services. (projectknow.com)
  • All questions were explored, but particular attention was paid to respondents' understandings of various substances (prescription pain relievers, non-prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco products) and treatment and counseling programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Not giving too much away, out of the three members of the wicked gang of drug smugglers, one is fairly straightforward, one is a bit more difficult to guess and one is quite unobvious. (timeandleisure.co.uk)
  • I think the decision to operate the first time is usually fairly straightforward. (acc.org)
  • Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant drug that is chemically related to amphetamine. (medscape.com)
  • Inadvertent absorption of methamphetamine may occur in "body packers", who swallow packages of the drug for transportation purposes, or "body stuffers", who insert bags of methamphetamine rectally or vaginally in an attempt to elude drug enforcement. (medscape.com)
  • She says New Zealand retail prices for methamphetamine remain high compared with other countries, and the drug is generally sold at about $800-1,000 per gram. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The drug referred to as ice is a form of methamphetamine, a powerful and addictive stimulant that is sold and used illicitly. (micadesign.org)
  • 12-step groups, sober living homes and support for family and friends promote a life rich with Since a lot of street methamphetamine is adulterated with harmful chemicals, ice is prized for being a pure form of the drug that causes a longer high. (micadesign.org)
  • Criminalization of the trade in drugs itself is also pointless, though for more complex reasons that involve economics, public health and many other factors. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Out of all the regulations state-supporters say are "necessary," the criminalization of drug use is the most detestable. (c4ss.org)
  • The International Drug Policy Reform Conference begins tomorrow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (drugwarrant.com)
  • The author of Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals About Us, King is an active advocate for those in recovery and to reform United States drug policy. (drugtruth.net)
  • The campaign has managed to put drug reform in the media spotlight just as a Hungarian parliamentary committee examining the subject is getting underway. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • We have taken countless young people out of our community on drug charges and wonder why they and their contemporaries no longer have faith in our system. (drugwarrant.com)
  • In January's Razorback bust, police cracked a major drug ring with arrests of people living from St. John's to Victoria. (cbc.ca)
  • That stereotypical dealer wouldn't be a terribly effective one: If you act like the dealers in those commercials and try to bully people into doing drugs , they'll just rat you out. (cracked.com)
  • Researchers in Washington, D.C., America's Terrifying Drug Basket, surveyed over 11,000 people charged with street-level dealing back in the 1990s. (cracked.com)
  • It represents policies, strategies and services, which aim to assist people who use legal and illegal psychoactive drugs to live safer and healthier lives. (gofundme.com)
  • Amidst the continuing furor of anti-drug polemics and hysterics, it's easy to make the casual observer forget one of the basic realities of this issue: Most people who use drugs are okay. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • For most of the people who use drugs, it's okay that they are using drugs. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • But when one faces facts straight on, they say a simple thing: Most people who use drugs are okay. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • If results are what count, in most cases it's okay that people are using drugs. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Our drug policies are so far off-base, with such serious consequences, it isn't that hard to get a lot of people, perhaps most, to understand at a minimum that some things are wrong. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Took a lot of sort of the current affairs regarding Indigenous people and compiled that with my 20 years of street experience and just realized that the reason I am still here today and able to function is that I figured this what I'm supposed to do - is, you know, stay in and just keep fighting. (sfu.ca)
  • The frigate HMNZS Te Kaha was taking part in a United States-led international maritime operation targeting people trafficking and smuggling drugs, which were, apparently, part of a funding chain for terrorists. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • I don't think people who do drugs are inherently bad. (halfbakery.com)
  • It's my understanding that half our prisons are filled with people in on drug offenses so if even half of these people could make it in a drug rehab work prison we could a) save a lot of money and b) do something good for these people rather than just sending them to crime college. (halfbakery.com)
  • Of the 50% of people in prison for drug offenses, how many are there just because they used drugs or were in possession of 'personal use' quantities? (halfbakery.com)
  • Once again bureaucrats have made changes in the controlled drug schedule, and all it will end up doing is becoming another "feel-good law" without making any substantive change in the number of people who are abusing some substance. (drugtopics.com)
  • Most out-of-treatment deaths occurred in people with known histories of drug misuse, so is this a failure by drug services to engage with people? (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • Hundreds of people lined the streets, eagerly awaiting life saving drugs to stall the progression of HIV or prevent the virus all together. (huffpost.com)
  • These drugs had been available in the United States for years, yet had remained out of reach for people in developing countries. (huffpost.com)
  • Being in reality over 18, they escape from the camps, and come down south to Oslo where they find themselves at the mercy of the drug trade, i.e. the only people who can employ them. (blather.net)
  • Vancouver's Downtown Eastside may have 5,000 or more people who inject drugs intravenously living in one troubled neighbourhood, but we don't have anywhere near that sort of prevalence. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • But it's the re-do valve operations, when the prosthetic valve gets infected because of continued drug use, where people are struggling. (acc.org)
  • People partake in many sordid vices, but drug use is without a doubt one of the most heavily-prosecuted. (c4ss.org)
  • Many people support these laws because they do not want these substances out on the streets or - heaven forbid! (c4ss.org)
  • If you want to warn people about the dangers of drug-abuse, spread the word, educate them. (c4ss.org)
  • ZHAO WEI: (Through interpreter) People think that anyone investing in this place must be connected to drugs, otherwise investors would not have chosen to come to the Golden Triangle. (nhpr.org)
  • For instance, it's now estimated that over 60,000 people a year die from drug overdoses in the United States, that's from using il icit drugs. (cdc.gov)
  • Mr. Carpenter is the author or editor of 16 books on international affairs, including Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003). (cfdp.ca)
  • SULLIVAN: That's Richard Horsey, an independent analyst and author of a recent International Crisis Group report on the synthetic drug trade in the region - a business the U.N. estimates is worth $60 billion a year in Asia and one that hasn't been affected by COVID at all or by record seizures this year, including five tons of crystal meth confiscated by Myanmar just a few weeks ago. (nhpr.org)
  • Bath salt" is the informal street name given to designer drugs containing substituted or synthetic cathinone chemicals. (medscape.com)
  • SEDENA operations are currently centered along two principal lines of operation - source control (drug eradication/seizure) and HVI interdiction (arrest). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The discovery was said to be the biggest Class A drug seizure on record in Britain and worth £500 million (more than NZ$1.19 billion). (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The government says it does not intend to imprison and criminalize drug users, but this is evidence that is not true. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Why not imprison workers and let the drug users be free? (halfbakery.com)
  • It may well help to change the country's drug laws. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • For the past month, drug users and former drug users have been giving Hungarian police fits as they march up to police stations and turn themselves in, demanding to be charged as violators of the country's repressive -- by European standards -- drug laws, according to reports from participants and organizers. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • We're proud that our community includes a Malawian soccer star who is working to improve his country's procurement of drugs and medical supplies, a former employee from The Gap who went from stocking jeans to stocking Tanzanian clinics with anti-retroviral drugs, and a budding playwright who has used her artistic background to support the sexual and reproductive health of Ugandan women. (huffpost.com)
  • even those that don't market themselves as regular smokers recognize the ridiculous nature of the drug war in this country. (loudnewsnet.com)
  • Statists put forth some fairly ridiculous arguments regarding why the state must exist in the first place, from regulating simple business transactions to policing what we do in our personal lives. (c4ss.org)
  • The United Nations Organization has allowed itself to become the lapdog of NATO, an organization as credible as a drug addict in desperate need of a fix. (pravda.ru)
  • That having been said, the United Nations Organization is a fairly imaginative seller of dreams. (pravda.ru)
  • Two years ago, it designated Zhao Wei's group a transnational criminal organization engaged in, quote, "horrendous illicit activities," including child prostitution, money laundering and drug trafficking throughout the region. (nhpr.org)
  • Organization estimates that globally, or worldwide, the prevalence of hepatitis C in injection drug users is 67 percent. (cdc.gov)
  • Portugal has decriminalized small amounts of formerly illegal drugs, along with Mexico. (drugwarrant.com)
  • In St. John's, where the oil industry has brought high-paying jobs and is rapidly transforming the look of Canada's most easterly city, one of the businesses enjoying the boom is the illegal drug trade. (cbc.ca)
  • Marlene Jesso says wealth from the offshore industry has helped fuel demand for illegal drugs. (cbc.ca)
  • Police and other enforcement agencies such as the Royal New Zealand Navy and New Zealand Customs Service are understandably keen to publicise their efforts to curtail the supply of illegal drugs, but exactly how are the values quoted in these stories calculated, and how accurate are they? (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • A New Zealand Police spokeswoman says street value information for illegal drugs comes from a range of Police sources: "These include investigation, open source information, Police drug experts, drug notifications, intelligence and cases we prosecute. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • That's because illegal drugs intercepted in large quantities are usually sold at a cheaper wholesale rate compared to the price paid for smaller quantities on the street. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Geographic location, purity, availability and the risk of legal penalties are all factors that influence the price paid for illegal drugs, and these will fluctuate over time. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Two major dark web marketplaces for buying illegal products shut down Another dark web marketplace bites the dust --Wall Street Market. (wworldmarket.link)
  • German authorities have seized the dark web drug market "Wallstreet of wall market darknet narcotics in the illegal online marketplace 'WALL STREET MARKET. (wworldmarket.link)
  • so then why are only certain drugs illegal? (c4ss.org)
  • This is a condition characterized by mental health problems such as: Ice is very addictive, so much so that it is classified as an illegal drug. (micadesign.org)
  • Ice and other concentrated forms of illegal drugs are more likely to cause overdose and death than less concentrated forms. (micadesign.org)
  • The other issue is HOW to fairly employ the prisoners. (halfbakery.com)
  • Busts have become more frequent in St. John's, with police operations with names like Razorback leading to multiple arrests. (cbc.ca)
  • With some 4,000 drug arrests annually, 90% of them for simple possession, according to government figures, the prosecution of drug users is keeping the courts busy. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • You're listening to Voices of the Street, a podcast series brought to you by Megaphone Magazine, featuring original writing from the 2021 Voices of the Street literary anthology. (sfu.ca)
  • The company spent more than $9 million on physician interactions related to Victoza in the last five months of 2013, excluding research payments and royalties, which relate more to drug development than marketing. (business-ethics.com)
  • The company agreed to pay the NIH only 0.5% in royalties for the drug. (motherjones.com)
  • The makers of Pradaxa, Xarelto and Eliquis, for example, say their drugs are at least as effective as Coumadin for certain conditions but do not require routine blood tests or limitations on what patients can eat. (business-ethics.com)
  • When told of ProPublica's analysis, John Murphy, PhRMA's assistant general counsel, said drug makers' spending should be seen not only as a marketing strategy, but also as a way of ensuring the best treatment options for patients. (business-ethics.com)
  • Angell disputes the industry's reputation as an "engine of innovation," arguing that the top U.S. drug makers spend 2.5 times as much on marketing and administration as they do research. (motherjones.com)
  • She discusses Prisolec maker Astra-Zeneca, which filed multiple lawsuits against generic drug makers to prevent them from entering the market when the company's exclusive marketing rights expired. (motherjones.com)
  • Victoza, through a once-a-day injection, helps lower blood sugar among diabetics, but researchers and advocacy groups have said drugs of its class carry an increased risk of thyroid cancer and pancreatitis. (business-ethics.com)
  • S upervised injection sites are legally sanctioned, medically supervised facilities designed to reduce harm from injecting drug use. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • SISs go beyond needle exchanges in that they can provide more than just sterile injection equipment and information about drugs and basic health, mostly because clients stay on the premises for a time rather than pick up a new kit and quickly leave. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • Infective endocarditis (IE) has traditionally been considered a rare disease, but in those places hit hardest by the drug abuse epidemic, hospitals are seeing many more cases of injection drug use (IDU) IE. (acc.org)
  • In other words, two out of three il icit injection drug users are infected with hepatitis C. Other infections can be seen. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, we speculate that the candida got into the blood because the skin wasn't cleaned properly prior to the injection of drugs. (cdc.gov)
  • Alternately, it should be noted that many drug users actual y lick their needles prior to injection of the drugs. (cdc.gov)
  • Wall Street market was shut down for legal reasons enforcement in 2019. (wworldmarket.link)
  • 3. Resources spent on futile drug law enforcement efforts (in the billions of dollars annually in the US alone, and smaller, though still significant sums in other countries, such as Canada) are not available for investigating and protecting against terrorism. (cfdp.ca)
  • Resources now used for drug law enforcement are also not available for foreign aid programs that might help to prevent the desperation and disaffection that can breed terrorism. (cfdp.ca)
  • When managed medically, those with drug-related IE had significantly longer hospital stays and were more likely to be readmitted for endocarditis (18.1 vs. 5.6 percent), septicemia (14.0 vs. 7.3 percent) and drug abuse (4.3 vs. 0.7 percent), as compared with those with non-IDU-IE (Figure 1). (acc.org)
  • No matter how much the state regulates or criminalizes drug-use, such substances will ALWAYS be around, especially for addicts who direly need their fix. (c4ss.org)
  • But simply saying methadone is more dangerous than buprenorphine is like saying insulin is more dangerous than oral hyperglycaemic drugs and therefore we shouldn't prescribe insulin. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • The company "obtained a patent on the idea of combining Prilosec with antibiotics, then argued that a generic drug would infringe on that patent because doctors might prescribe it with an antibiotic. (motherjones.com)
  • It is clear that the HIV/AIDS epidemic offer their services for any available jobs, is becoming a threat to development in for example washing cars in the street or many parts of the world, and in some places working in the homes of those who may is rapidly becoming a security crisis too request their services. (who.int)
  • I'm in horrible withdrawal from a drug that I've been addicted to for several years now. (thehealthy.com)
  • The approach used by Police and the navy - using recent information about the street value of a drug and then multiplying it by the number of kilograms seized - is fairly standard. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The joint destruction common in children with smallpox major virus until substantial progress was made on these might be prevented by antiviral drugs, but intraarticular questions. (cdc.gov)
  • BUSINESS The business of reporting wholesale firms in lhe Eleventh Federal Reserve District continued in fairly substantial volume during November, although decreases which are usual at this season were recorded in all lines except drugs. (stlouisfed.org)
  • Roughly 30 of them have turned themselves in as drug users to Budapest and other city police headquarters since the beginning of April. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • It is fueling discussion, not only about casual use of marijuana but also how society deals with the truly problematic drug users. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • There are also users who indulge in "parachuting", in which the drug is loosely wrapped to delay absorption and prolong effect. (medscape.com)
  • Drug users would still be in prisons so the drug warriors would be happy, these prisons would be equipped specifically to attempt re-hab rather than preventing violence so the guards would be happy and the prisoner's would pay for all of this by their hard work so I'd be happy. (halfbakery.com)
  • These Tor-based sites allow users to buy and sell drugs, credit cards, weapons and hacking services. (wworldmarket.link)
  • PWID) and provide a point of contact with illicit drug users that can help provide them with life-saving information. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The higher street prices are compensation for the bigger risks suppliers are taking on, such as legal penalties and violence from competitors, so the unit price for a drug increases considerably as it gets closer to sale on the streets of a first-world country. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • When the potency of a drug like meth increases, the overdose risk also increases because it becomes more toxic. (micadesign.org)
  • That's why it's often used as a filler in fake prescription pills or street drugs. (healthlinkbc.ca)
  • Angell writes that around 75% of new drugs approved by the FDA are me-too drugs, such as more pills for heartburn or allergies that can be less effective than current drugs, as long as they're more effective than a placebo. (motherjones.com)
  • Reverend Alexander Sharp who heads up Clergy for a New Drug Policy joins DTN host Dean Becker to discuss the morals, the punishment and the advocates of eternal drug war + Matt Simon, long time policy man for the Marijuana Policy Project who now works within the cannabis industry shares his thoughts on progress, corruption and the road going forward. (drugtruth.net)
  • Drugs are a part-time job for most dealers. (cracked.com)
  • My impression is that most of the ones who get significant jail time were dealing or transporting drugs, or committed some other crime to support their drug habit, but I could be mistaken. (halfbakery.com)
  • Dave Marteau's article asks: is it time 'to reappraise our relationship with the life-saving drug methadone? (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • To reconnect with their roots, they spent a lot of time hanging around the San Francisco Bay Area--their home and the place where they first became a band, as part of Berkeley's Gilman Street punk scene. (greenday.net)
  • It's also fairly cheap and easy to make. (healthlinkbc.ca)
  • If you're interested, there is a button on the left where you can make a contribution to the server costs for Drug WarRant. (drugwarrant.com)
  • Roy, who deals at his high school, doesn't even use drugs, aside from one toke from each batch of weed to make sure what he's selling is worth the price. (cracked.com)
  • They often simply make the claim that the drug trade, or drug use, supports terrorism, without further explanation. (cfdp.ca)
  • Pharmaceutical companies say that the high price of drugs reflects the cost of R&D. What do you make of that argument? (motherjones.com)
  • He references the Auriacombe review of drug-related deaths in France between 1994 and 1998, which found buprenorphine was safer. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • I n 1994, Reuters News Agency quoted Interpol's chief drugs officer, Iqbal Hussain Rizvi, as saying that "Drugs have taken over as the chief means of financing terrorism. (cfdp.ca)
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  • Then it seems as if Marteau does not know that methadone and buprenorphine are very different drugs. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • We will have cared for thousands of patients with drug problems and as a broad generalisation, the more complex, vulnerable, more likely to overdose and sick patients were settled much better on methadone and few of this group did well on buprenorphine. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • Also, isn't it possible that those who were in treatment were inadequately dosed and self-treating with street methadone? (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • Undercover investigators spoke with CBC News about the rapid changes they have observed in the St. John's drug trade. (cbc.ca)
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  • It may feel like old news already, but the drug abuse crisis in the U.S. is far from over. (acc.org)
  • The high price of prescription drugs has put U.S. pharmaceutical companies in the news recently, but Dr. Marcia Angell argues that problems with the industry run even deeper. (motherjones.com)
  • and Robert Weiner, national columnist, president of Weiner Public News, and a regular analyst on Main Street Radio Network. (cdc.gov)
  • Mythbusters asked the New Zealand Navy how it estimated the value of its recent drugs bust. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • The majority of the new products the industry puts out, says Angell, are "me-too" drugs: ones that are almost identical to current treatments but "no better than drugs already on the market to treat the same condition. (motherjones.com)
  • Recent findings show that five killer microbes, and counting, are resistant to all available drug treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • It was about six weeks ago, I bought the website MoralHighGround.world, and I wanted to claim the moral high ground in the drug war because I feel that our elected officials, our talking heads at the top of this, were off track. (drugtruth.net)
  • He knows they'll leap at any opportunity to beat the shit out of him and take all his drugs and money, so he has to stash cash and drugs in various places around his high school just to keep them safe. (cracked.com)
  • These persons, and body stuffers, are at high risk for toxicity as the drug wrapping may be compromised and allow complete drug absorption. (medscape.com)
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  • But also, they've invested an awful lot of money in preparing, you know, Plan B, Plan C to keep these high-profit drugs moving. (nhpr.org)
  • If a product contains isolated soy protein (or soy protein isolate), the protein content should be fairly high. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Much of the drug trade in St. John's occurs downtown, but police have found dealers working in many neighbourhoods. (cbc.ca)
  • Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers Open Payments, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry trade group, said they had not analyzed the data in order to rank spending by drug. (business-ethics.com)
  • And we would like to see the drug trade made less accessible to children. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • Recently in passing I reported that 48 hash dealers were arrested in my area, thus removing the street trade. (blather.net)
  • Following an investigation into a Darknet marketplace vendor using the dark web marketplaces, including Trade Route, Wall Street Market. (wworldmarket.link)
  • Those qualities have led to the widespread and rampant abuse of this dangerous drug. (medscape.com)
  • Go to https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/supervised-consumption-sites/status-application.html to find a site near you. (healthlinkbc.ca)
  • Harm Reduction (as defined by The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition ) is a comprehensive, just and science-based approach to substance use. (gofundme.com)
  • There are laws against using or selling certain drugs because, according to those who would protect us from them, they are considered harmful. (c4ss.org)
  • Compare management, culture, and compensation ratings for Shoppers Drug Mart and McDonald's. (indeed.com)
  • First, drug war policies have needlessly taken potential taxpayers out of the community and spent tax money to keep them in prison. (drugwarrant.com)
  • Smith, another veteran member of the RCMP's team, said other drugs have been flowing into St. John's in the last few years, as dealers take advantage of a population with money to burn. (cbc.ca)
  • The DEA is focused on drug trafficking rather than money laundering. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The information, from a database known as Open Payments, gives the first comprehensive look at how much money drug and device companies have spent working with doctors. (business-ethics.com)
  • I was a street hustler, you know," he says, " and the drug dealers in Philadelphia put a hit on my life. (whyy.org)
  • Most of us have figured out that the stereotypical drug dealers from heavy-handed PSAs aren't a particularly accurate depiction of anyone, but we still carry around a specific image in our heads: They're underachievers who never cared about school, or they're too perpetually stoned to keep a job. (cracked.com)
  • Whether you see the drug war as a valiant crusade of justice against a corrosive cultural cancer or the brutal arm of a totalitarian police state bent on nothing more than the eradication of everything fun, you probably imagine that the cops are the biggest thing drug dealers have to worry about. (cracked.com)
  • After all, they have guns and helicopters and fast cars and mustaches and other seriously intimidating battle gear -- who else could drug dealers possibly have to worry about? (cracked.com)
  • Fairly soon, the numbers of new street dealers came to equal the numbers arrested and we're back to square one. (blather.net)
  • I spent last Saturday chasing after invisible drug dealers via mysterious contacts who for some reason adore historical landmarks along and near Fleet Street, as all exotic dancers and police officers do (duh! (timeandleisure.co.uk)
  • Of course the issue of diversion is important and should be dealt with, but this article is at the very least unhelpful, and at the worst dangerous, particularly in this climate of rising poverty, social exclusion and drug-related deaths. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • There is something incredibly fascinating about rediscovering streets that I thought I knew quite well whilst simultaneously trying to solve a complex mystery. (timeandleisure.co.uk)
  • It's conveniently close to massive chemical supplies that they need in China, and it's got some fairly easy export routes to their markets. (nhpr.org)
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  • The savings would be far greater than the simple retail value of the drug. (drugfoundation.org.nz)
  • 5:e007629, they used fairly simple drug-related mortality data from two sources but posed some complex questions. (drinkanddrugsnews.com)
  • When drugs start to reemerge on a street that has been kept clean by a neighborhood gang called the Deuces for three years, a gang war ensues. (filmjabber.com)
  • However, employers have great difficulty balancing these viewpoints with their understanding of the impacts of drug use on performance, particularly in light of their own operational liabilities. (druglibrary.net)
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  • So they start dealing on the street. (blather.net)
  • To fairly strong, while the scores are somewhat lower in improve health literacy, practices such as identifying self- health policies for self-care and patient empowerment. (bvsalud.org)
  • The self-confessed drug criminals have since kept coming, and are beginning to include well-respected and well-known Hungarians. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • While 3,4-methylenedioxy- N -methylamphetamine (MDMA [eg, ecstasy]) is likely the most common of the phenylethylamine derivatives, some others include such newer novel synthetics as cathinones ("bath salts"), the 2C family of drugs, as well as their N-o-methoxybenzyl analogs (NBOMe). (medscape.com)
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