Twenty-eight individuals are facing drug trafficking and money laundering charges as the result of a federal investigation targeting a Mexican drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for importing large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico, and distributing the drugs in New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois…
GOP Lawmaker: U.S. Won’t Spray Opium in Afghanistan Because Crops ‘Might Be Too Close to a Mosque’…
Rep. Rohrabacher said that U.S. government has been able to aerial spray and eradicate the opium crops in Afghanistan used to make the deadly heroin drug for at least 20 years but has declined to employ that capability. During an April 27 hearing on Afghanistan held by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, the […]
Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel by Daniel Hopsicker…
New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009, has been in business since 2004 in Guyana with a politically powerful crime family involved in international drug trafficking whose most famous member is a drug pilot who had also been the chief […]
500% Growth in Infants in Rural America Showing Up Addicted to Heroin, Opiods…
A new study found heroin and opioid-related problems are showing a 500 percent increase among pregnant women and infants in rural areas in less than a decade. Among the problem are babies are being born with painful withdrawal symptoms…
30% of Medicare Part D Beneficiaries Are Taking Commonly Abused Opioids…
Congress Boosts Rehab but Gives Opioid Pushers a Pass…
2014 Saw a Significant Increase in the U.S. Death Rate in Over a Decade…
The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade, preliminary federal data show…