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Afghanistan: US Drug Policy, Total Corruption or Utter Insanity?

Don't believe that opium is a historic Afghan product; it is not.

(MOSCOW) - The new American drug policy is easy to understand. America is telling the world it can no longer eradicate opium/heroin production because “poor farmers” are going to suffer.

In truth, the poppy fields America now protects are run by drug lords with ties to the Karzai regime.

Internet Pharmacy Ring Dismantled

One defendant faces a possible maximum statutory sentence of 474 years imprisonment and a $10.9 million fine.

(PHILADELPHIA) - Federal law enforcement officials today announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging two in a large-scale illicit Internet pharmacy operation.

The superseding indictment charged Carleta Carolina and Wayne White with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and other charges.

American Pain Society`s 29th Annual Scientific Meeting

Strange -- 20 years later, we don't hear mention of pseudo-addiction, but we certainly hear mention of a dramatic rise in drug overdose deaths by 5-fold as a result of opioids -- and this comes from the FDA. Coincidence?

(BALTIMORE, Md.) - The American Pain Society held its 29th Annual Scientific Meeting this past weekend in Baltimore, Maryland.

Of particular interest to some pharmaceutical companies producing opioids in their promotion of the "epidemic of the undertreatment of pain" in this country is the U.S. FDA's controversial REMS.

Barbie`s Bad Break-up: The Fight for Mexico`s Heartland

Violence threatens more than just Mexico's north.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - From the bustling, smoggy innards of Mexico City, the cities of Cuernavaca, Morelos, and Acapulco, Guerrero, long loomed as tranquil getaways for the harried residents of the Mexican capital.

For the rich, weekend homes and estates in and around Cuernavaca and on the beaches of Acapulco stood as status symbols of class privilege, economic might and political power.

Week Two of the Schneider Trial

‏A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two bones crossed together under the skull. It is generally used as a warning of danger -- usually in regard to poisonous substances.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - Week 2 of the "Pill Mill Doc" trial in Wichita, Kansas ended with testimony from previous employees of the pain clinic.

The court heard from patients, family members, and an ER physician from a local hospital.

Mother`s Day Victory for Ciudad Juarez Women

Among the latest victims was 18-year old Esmeralda Bretado Perez, 7 months pregnant, killed May 4 on a soccer field.

(CIUDAD, Juarez) - On the eve of Mother’s Day 2010, relatives of women murdered in Ciudad Juarez and their allies chalked up another victory on the international front.

By a vote of 359 to 235, with 17 abstentions, the European Parliament approved an amendment to its strategic plan for Latin American relationships that cites an international court verdict on the Ciudad Juarez femicides.

Juarez Chief Medical Examiner Gunned Down in Cold Blood Outside Home

The Medical Examiner Chief in Juarez is shot at nearly point blank range outside the door of his house

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - The Mexican news agency LaPolaka reports that a ministerial officer was shot dead Thursday night at his home.

It was learned that the victim is a crime scene expert, later identified as Angel Luis Gonzalez. Mr. Gonzalez was the head of the Forensic Medical Service.

Week 1 of Pill Mill Doc Trial in Wichita, Kansas

"So dark the con of man" - Da Vinci Code

(WICHITA, Kansas) - Opening statements in what could be a 12 week trial, included a prosecutor portraying Stephen Schneider, a former doctor, and his wife Linda, a nurse in his medical practice as "greedy criminals".

"This is a case about money, not medicine," Assistant US Attorney Tanya Treadway told jurors this week.

Bloodshed in Juarez: 15 Killed in 11 Hours

How many have to die before something changes? The answer seems far away.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - Perhaps the term "drug war" has been so greatly abused in America that people fail to realize there is a real drug war taking place no more than a stone's throw from the U.S. border with Mexico.

The rate of death from the drug war in Mexico absolutely smokes anything taking place in the Mideast, at least on the average day.

Special Feature: Solidarity with a Besieged Sister City

Ciudad Juarez has an estimated population of 1-1.3 million people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico State University criminal justice Professor Cynthia Bejarano has long heard the painful stories and seen the sorrowful faces from the violence raging away in Ciudad Juarez just forty-five minutes south of her Las Cruces campus.

Lately, students have had loved ones attacked and normal back-and-forth family visitations disrupted in their binational community.