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Drug-related 311 complaints to the East Harlem safe injection site’s address have soared to 272 in 2024, up 377% from just 57 in 2020, the year before the facility opened, according to an NYPD ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 107,735 Americans died between August 2021 and August 2022 from drug poisonings, with 66% of those deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
International drug routes. Panamanian motor vessel Gatun during the largest cocaine bust in US Coast Guard history (totalling 20 tons, worth over 600 million USD), off the coast of Panama. The US federal government is an opponent of the illegal drug trade ; however, state laws vary greatly and in some cases contradict federal laws.
The Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) began investigating the sale of fentanyl in 2023 following several drug overdoses, at least one of which was fatal.
Between 1984 and 1999, the number of defendants charged with a drug offense in the Federal courts increased 3% annually, from 11,854 to 29,306. By 1999 there were 472 Drug Courts in the nation and by 2005 that number had increased to 1262 with another 575 Drug Courts in the planning stages; currently, all 50 states have working Drug Courts ...
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license , of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws .
Following a record-124 fatal overdoses in the county in 2017, drug deaths dropped to 76 in 2019 but have increased each year since then to 122 in 2022 and 2023, according to data released by the ...
Ricky Donnell "Freeway Ricky" Ross (born January 26, 1960) [1] is an American author and former drug lord best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s. [2] He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009. [3]