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On Thursday evening, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Jim Carroll recognized individuals and initiatives of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program for outstanding work in reducing drug trafficking and production in the United States.The HIDTA program, which includes 33 HIDTAs in 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia, provides assistance to Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States.“The close collaboration our HIDTAs have with law enforcement across the country is invaluable to keeping deadly drugs...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, under pressure from the Trump administration, has beefed up his strategy to fight drug cartels, including bringing the marines, Mexico’s elite security force, back to the front lines of the drug war. The moves mark a shift by Mexico from a counternarcotics strategy that largely ended the pursuit of high-profile arrests and focused almost exclusively on poverty alleviation. “We are operating again,” said a senior Mexican navy officer. “The targets we need to go after have been defined.” The change in strategy comes amid growing alarm in Washington at Mexico’s failure to crack down...

Officials with the St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office in southwest Louisiana issued the warning last week after making arrests in connection to the new drug. It's called gray death and is a lethal combination of "some of the most deadly opioids including heroin, fentanyl and various fentanyl analogues," officials said on Facebook. According to the Sheriff's Office, the new super drug began to surface in the South, first in Alabama and Georgia. Investigators said a "minuscule amount of this drug" can kill. Sheriff's Office investigators released photos of what gray death looks like after suspects were taken into custody with...

LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WMBB) — Bay County Sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday that they seized 18 pounds of meth during a narcotics operation. The investigation into a local drug ring began in early 2019 and the first seizure of what would become 18 pounds of meth, $75,000 and 13 guns took place in November. Investigators named Ulises Perez as the drug ring’s leader and said he was deported from the United States four times on previous drug charges.

In some parts of the world they conjure wild memories from the 2010s. In Russia, they're more popular than weed.When a group of powerful, legal stimulants burst onto the drug scene in the UK and U.S. a decade ago, they caused a media frenzy. In Britain, mephedrone came virtually out of nowhere in 2009 to become a hugely popular drug with university students, clubbers and rural teenagers. Dubbed "meow meow" by newspapers and sold online as “plant food,” it was the “killer” drug that made people rip off their own scrotums. Yet behind the hype, to young people using it,...

Looks like I’m going to start in on the popcorn hours before kickoff. JOHN adds: Mike Cernovich claims to have the Register poll results that were quashed. They were bound to leak. I haven’t gone back to check against past Register polls, but the salient point would seem to be Biden sinking like a stone: Mike Cernovich ✔ @Cernovich Des Moines Iowa poll was spiked, here are the results: Sanders: 22% Warren: 18% Buttigieg: 16% Biden: 13% 2,938 10:06 PM - Feb 1, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,304 people are talking about this

President Donald Trump aired a campaign ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday featuring Alice Johnson, whose life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses was commuted by Trump in June 2018. In the ad, Trump touted his criminal justice reform record and featured footage from the emotional moments when Johnson was released from prison and reunited with her family.

The daughter of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has married another offspring of a drug empire in a lavish ceremony held in the cathedral of Sinaloa's state capital Culiacan. Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman married Edgar Cazares, the nephew of Blanca Margarita Cazares - an alleged cartel money launderer, Mexican newspaper Reforma reported on Saturday, in the heartland of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The wedding took place on January 25, Reforma said. Photographs and videos, including performances by a popular Mexican band and singers, fireworks, and yellow tape around the cathedral, were shared on social media.

Did you hear about Seattle’s latest group to unionize? A listener sent me a picture of a flier from an alley off of the Ave in the University District — a flier for a drug users union. AUDIO FILE ON ARTICLE SITE; This group celebrates drug use — in fact, they have formed a subculture that is all about drug use. The flier says, “Urban Survivors Union — Proud To Be a Drug User, Seattle’s Drug User Union.” We are a union that is, first and foremost, for and by drug users. Our first mission is to unite as...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 10:15 A.M. EST MS. CONWAY: Good morning. Thank you for being here. We come before you bearing good news. For the first time in four years, life expectancy in the United States of America has increased. And for the first time in 29 years, the number of drug overdose deaths has decreased. This has not happened through coincidence. It’s happened through causation. It’s owing in large part to a whole-of-government approach to treat the whole person, led by President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and really, the entire administration. Nearly 70,000 of our fellow...

A Houston rapper was arrested while driving around with more than a gallon of liquid codeine. Sidney Wiley, who performs under the name Psyco Sid, was stopped for a traffic violation around 4:30 a.m. Thursday in the 1800 block of Barker Cypress Road. Deputies found 10 bottles of what is believed to be liquid codeine, also known as 'lean', along with a gun and one and a half pounds of marijuana in the vehicle. Wiley was arrested on an open felony warrant for possession of a controlled substance and more charges may be filed.

The parents of a Cornell freshman who was found dead at the bottom of a gorge after a hazing prank are suing the college and the fraternity he was joining the night he died. Antonio Tsialas died in October last year after a night of brutal drinking and hazing with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, at a 'Christmas in October' party. His body was found in a gorge and he had high levels of alcohol in his system but his family's attorney says his cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma to the body. They...

Does legalized marijuana prevent people from turning towards more dangerous drugs, like opioids, to manage pain and withdrawal? Or does marijuana continue to act as a "gateway" drug, even after obtaining it no longer requires someone to enter into a shady underworld? The CDC just released its summation of 2018 deaths due to drug overdoses. (THIS IS FOR ALL OVERDOSES, NOT MARIJUANA OVERDOSES; I'm looking at how marijuana relates to overdoses from other drugs!) When I saw that death rates from drug overdoses (largely due to opioids, but with cocaine and other drugs playing an increasing role) had declined for...

The longest-ever drug smuggling tunnel was discovered along the US Southwest border, officials said Wednesday The sophisticated underground pathway is over three-quarters of a mile long and features a rail system and an elevator, according to US Customs and Border Protection. The tunnel originated in an industrial area in Tijuana, Mexico, and stretched over 4,000 feet into San Diego, the agency said.

County man is accused of driving drunk twice in the same day. CHP officers arrested 53-year-old Sanjeev Grover for DUI twice on Sunday. First in Solano County, then again in Sacramento County hours later. Grover’s first arrest happened in Solano County where CHP officers arrested him for DUI around 3 in the morning on Sunday. He was later arrested a second time for DUI near Greenback Lane and Interstate 80 around 2:30 in the afternoon Sunday in Sacramento County. According to CHP officials, after being released from the Solano County Jail, Grover picked up his car from a tow yard...

Authorities in Central Kentucky are concerned about a new trend with meth users. It's called "wasping" and deputies in Franklin County say it's becoming more and more common. They say addicts will mix and dilute their meth with wasp spray to give it a longer life span. Deputies say users also are heating the spray up and then huffing it. Deputies believe the trend came from West Virginia and has since made its way across Kentucky. So far, they are responding to medical emergencies where people are either beginning to overdose or facing hallucinations related to pesticides. "This is wasp...

NASHVILLE (BP) -- The death of Truett Foster McKeehan, 21, son of Christian rapper TobyMac, was caused by an accidental overdose of fentanyl and amphetamines. The cause was listed on a report from the Davidson County (Tenn.) medical examiner, according to the Tennessean newspaper. McKeehan's death was sudden. Emergency crews found him dead on arrival to his home after a call was made regarding a person in cardiac arrest. The report showed potential nitrous oxide use, known also a laughing gas, as well as Adderall and marijuana. Metro Public Health Department records for Davidson County show that deaths as a...

Stephen Walder spent £1,000 a week on cocktails of drink and cocaine“In two 36-hour binges on my own I drank 112 cans of Red Stripe,” Stephen Walder confesses. Spending £1,000 a week on his alcohol addiction - washed down with cocaine - was something he didn’t think twice about.But he admits he “doesn’t know” how he is still alive after drinking can after can after can in his last ever binge. From an innocent sip of cider at 13 he started regularly drinking pints of lager at 16 one or two nights a week. But his habit soon spiralled to...

Last week, the Herald Publication in Mascoutah, Illinois revealed that the City of Fairview Heights entered into an agreement with the IDOT to install automatic license plate readers (ALPR) on highway trusses to allegedly “prevent, deter and solve crimes.” Which is typical government doublespeak to explain away Big Brother tracking innocent motorists. Taken at face value, Fairview Heights reasons for tracking everyone is nothing new, they use the same cookie-cutter excuses that law enforcement across the country have been using. But what really caught my eye was the “other resolution approved by the council.” The other resolution calls for the...

Former 'Chapo' lieutenant allegedly built and operated 600-yard-long structures stretching from Tijuana to San Diego CountyThe man believed responsible for building and operating two massive cross-border tunnels for smuggling drugs from Tijuana to California has been extradited to face charges in the United States, the Mexican government says. Jose Sanchez-Villalobos, also known as “The Lord of the Tunnels,” was handed over to American law enforcement agents last week at the Toluca International Airport outside of Mexico City. He’s expected to face drug-related charges in a California federal court, Mexican authorities said on Sunday. The charges stem from a 2012 federal...