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Inside the deadly hunt for "blood jade" marred by heroin and violence
Myanmar’s Kachin State is believed to hold up to 90% of the world’s most valuable jade. Demand for …
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Adobe executive compared early termination fees to heroin for the company: court docs
Last month, US regulators sued Adobe, accusing the company of violating federal laws designed to pr…
Natalie Musumeci
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My son died on Mother's Day weekend. Sometimes I wonder how I've survived all these years.
I found out my son had died of an overdose days after Mother's Day. I sometimes wonder how I've sur…
Patricia Roos
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Russia's synthetic drug use is skyrocketing as soldiers return from Ukraine with addictions and trafficking supply routes dwindle
Before the war, Russia served as a hub for cross-border flows of illicit products. Now, Russian gan…
Erin Snodgrass
How heroin trafficking actually works
David McMillan is a British Australian former drug smuggler. He was arrested several times between …
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Russian soldiers are fighting Ukraine high on amphetamines, a report claims. The Nazis did it first.
Drugs have long played a role in wartime strategy, but the Nazis took chemical dependency to anothe…
Erin Snodgrass
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The US totally failed to stop the drug trade in Afghanistan, but the Taliban found a better way to cash in
Opium is Afghanistan's largest cash crop, but drug trafficking isn't the only, or even the biggest,…
Christopher Woody
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The story of El Chapo's escape from prison in a laundry cart and his triumphant return to Sinaloa
In 2001, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug trafficker better known as El Chapo, dec…
Noah Hurowitz
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Tennessee police stood by and watched a man drown for 13 minutes, lawsuit says
The lawsuit says that the four officers "acted with no urgency whatsoever" as Mika Wheeler Clabo, 3…
Nathan Rennolds
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Family of woman who died from ingesting kratom, a legal opioid-like herbal extract, awarded $11 million in damages
A mother of four died in 2021 after ingesting kratom, a legal herbal extract. Its seller has been o…
Tasmin Lockwood
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Drones being used to smuggle drugs across border into India, admits Pakistan PM's advisor
Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, the Special Assistant on Defence to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Shar…
ANI
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Russia is sending 'disposable' soldiers to fight Ukraine high on amphetamines to ensure they 'still run at machine guns,' military expert says
A report from the Royal United Service Institute said Russian soldiers are likely being sent to "sk…
Erin Snodgrass
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Photos show homeless heroin addicts in Afghanistan rounded up and forced into grim rehab by the Taliban
Drug users detained in a Taliban raid wait to be taken to their room in the detoxification ward of …
Alia Shoaib
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Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth as US begins withdrawal
Ephedra sinica, which contains the key ingredient for making crystal meth, grows wild in Afghanista…
Ali Latifi
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Mexico's Sinaloa cartel built an empire on cocaine, but it's betting on another drug to feed US appetites
"If they want harder drugs, we will produce them and smuggle them ... You have to give the client w…
Luis Chaparro
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The 'war on drugs' may be a bigger problem than the drugs themselves, experts say
Voters in seven states and DC voted on Tuesday to decriminalize or legalize a variety of drugs, end…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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States are banning an energy pill dubbed 'gas station heroin' after people suffer opioid-like withdrawals, paranoia, and hallucinations
Tianeptine, sold under names like Za Za Red, Tianna, and TD Red, will be illegal in Mississippi sta…
Alex Bitter
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A Ukrainian soldier wondered if the Russians advancing on Bakhmut are on drugs: 'Otherwise, how can they go to certain death?'
No evidence has emerged that Russia or the Wagner Group have given its soldiers drugs. But it's not…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Lindsey Graham is calling for the US to unleash its 'fury and might' to destroy the Mexican drug cartels
Graham said he isn't suggesting that the US should invade Mexico, but called for drug labs that are…
Cheryl Teh
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A major investigation in Arizona yielded $13 million worth of drugs, including 30 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more po…