The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a survey of American women between 15 and 44 who have taken opioids, and the results show how pervasive and dangerous the problem has become among pregnant women.
Early this week, Mexican authorities took possession of an unmanned aerial vehicle that crash-landed on the Mexican side of the U.S. border near San Ysidro, California. The drone was reportedly carrying crystal meth and was used to smuggle the drugs into the U.S.
Mexican drug smugglers are using a more advanced way to transport their product into the United States: drones. Tijuana police said that a drone that crashed into a supermarket parking lot Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing was chock-full of illicit methamphetamine.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter fired warning shots Saturday night at suspected drug smugglers operating a panga boat off the coast of La Jolla, California, forcing the boat to stop and surrender to authorities.
A Maryland man high on the drug PCP was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting a neighbor and a toddler — police claim he tried to gouge the little girl’s eyes out.
This past Three Kings Day left left dozens of people hospitalized in Orange County after eating traditional Rosca de Reyes (“King’s bread”) that was laced with synthetic drugs and, in some cases, induced hallucinations.
Islam forbids drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes, but rumors have spread for months indicating that members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist groups engage in drug use. Those rumors were at least in part confirmed by a discovery this week when VICE journalist Joakim Medin identified cocaine in the house of dead Islamic State leader Emir Abu Zahra just south of Kobane, Syria.
There’s good news and bad news in a report that new drug approvals by the Food and Drug Administration have hit an 18-year high.
TURBAT, Pakistan—Something fell out of the sky near Arif Saleem’s home at 5:20 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2013. He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound. The strike was one of three, in quick succession, that morning in the village of Kulahu, in Pakistani Baluchistan, 45 miles east of the Iran border. One of the blasts damaged the local mosque. Pages from the Quran fluttered in the air before landing gently on the rubble.
Federal agents seized two bottles with more than 8 pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside liquor bottles. The drugs were seized from two men trying to get to Oklahoma from the border city of Laredo, Texas.
A disabled man from California has been sent to prison for using his wheelchair and special van to smuggle weapons and ammunition for the infamous Knights Templar cartel. A U.S. District judge in San Diego sentenced 53-year-old Sergio Garcia Rico
A BBC presenter was unable to finish a serious report about drugs after he stood too close too a burning pile of heroin and cannabis. Quentin Sommerville, the corporation’s Middle East correspondent, got the giggles when he was trying to
Residents of San Diego’s Courtyards apartment complex received a not-so-jolly letter in the mail this December – a letter accusing one family in the complex of operating as a criminal element in the community. The letter calls the apartment’s residents
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Birth certificates, food stamps, fake ID’s and even sexual services are all for sale in various Facebook pages from the Texas border. With names like La Pulga Online (No Rules) La New Pulga Online, Las Milpas FB
Eight operatives of a Mexican drug cartel were sentenced to U.S. federal prison for their role in running a Methamphetamine distribution ring in Atlanta, Georgia. Court records don’t specify which drug cartel the group belonged to, but most of the
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer accused of taking money from Mexican drug traffickers and possibly stashing tens of thousands of dollars in Mexico will remain jailed until his trial date Next year. On Thursday
Sheriff’s deputies raided a Houston-area drug lab in northeast Harris County that was making meth doses disguised as ecstasy pills. The lab was located in a strip mall next to a daycare and a church. So far four men have
