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An Iowa woman was arrested after allegedly asking the cops to check her stash of narcotics for traces of the coronavirus.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on the United States to rebuild its domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in order to end China’s monopoly on the drugs Americans rely on.

MADRID (AP) – Spanish police have arrested 89 people suspected of belonging to a crime ring that smuggled both migrants and hashish from North Africa to mainland Spain.

Police departments in Merrill, Wisconsin, and Johnson City, Texas, are trying to catch potential criminals by playing upon their coronavirus fears. 

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) – Danish police say they have arrested 27 people for suspected drug smuggling after finding some 100 kilograms of cocaine on a Bahamas-registered cargo vessel plying Danish waters.

During ABC News’s 2020 Democrat Debate on Friday evening, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, falsely claimed he never called for “decriminalizing all drugs,” though his website explicitly states that position as his plan for tackling the opioid crisis. 

“There’s no question that systemic racism has penetrated to every level of our system and my city was not immune,” Buttigieg said.

Drug and diagnosis companies are working on ways to prevent and treat coronavirus, but the process will take months, according to a report.

Donald Trump’s border security policies helped reduce deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018 relative to 2017, said Dr. Nicole Saphier.

Earlier this month an apartment in Östermalm was rocked by a large explosion. Now investigators claim the residence was used as a centre to distribute illegal drugs to wealthy clients.

A suspect reportedly told police he mixed his mother’s ashes in with drugs he used last week in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Pete Buttigieg told a town hall meeting that President Donald Trump had used “chest-thumping militarism” instead of sound foreign policy in the Middle East.

Three people were wounded on Christmas day following a shootout between drug gang members involving military-grade automatic weapons. 

Walmart is apologizing after it made a Christmas sweater for sale that appeared to look like Santa was doing drugs.

Police in several European countries have arrested dozens of suspected Nigerian mafia members as the crime organisation spreads across Italy and elsewhere.

The opioid crisis is killing young, white suburban Americans more than any other demographic in the United States for the second consecutive year.

“We will temporarily hold off this designation and step up our joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Four African migrants face charges of voluntary homicide, aggravated sexual violence, and distribution of illegal narcotics to a minor, one year after teen Desirée Mariottini was found dead in Rome.

It is the first time a ‘narco submarine’ has been seen in Europe — it made a 4,200 mile journey from Colombia with €100m of Cocaine.

The Mint Hill Police Department posted a tongue-in-cheek PSA offering to help drug users avoid scams by weighing their drugs.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that he would be willing to send U.S. troops to Mexico as a “last resort” to fight drug cartels.

China sentenced a man to death for producing and selling fentanyl and issued life sentences to his two accomplices, state propaganda outlet Global Times reported Thursday.

Sadiq Khan has signalled that he is open to decriminalising cannabis possession, calling for an “evidence-based conversation” about the drug.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced that it seized 19 tons of illegal drugs worth millions in international waters.

Hundreds of people attended a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, calling for the release of an Israeli woman imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, as a simultaneous rally was held in New York outside the Russian consulate.

ABC producers were forced to edit an episode of Tamron Hall’s talk show after she confessed to a studio audience that she used to “facilitate” the sell of cocaine when she was a teenager, according to a report from The Daily Mail. 

Fact Check – CLAIM: “Unfettered capitalism” created the opioid crisis. VERDICT: False. The opioid crisis was the result of bad government policy and medical advice.

Nearly half of the adults in the United States claim substance abuse has caused problems within their families, according to a Gallup poll.

An Arkansas woman who was arrested for allegedly having drug paraphernalia inside her car claimed her brother fed her a “meth sandwich.”

London has a cocaine problem bigger than that of Europe’s next three largest cocaine-consuming cities combined, according to an analysis by King’s College London.

A Missouri couple whose unborn baby tested positive for amphetamines recently discovered that their dream home used to be a meth lab.

Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead on the streets of Amsterdam this week, with some believing the shooting was tied to a major Moroccan mafia drug case.

Reddit users can turn on a candidate if they feel that they are inauthentic or posting canned pre-written content. 

Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

The Pentagon has told Congress that it will build 11 sections of the southern border wall with $3.6 billion in funds allocated by Congress to other construction projects.

Authorities have arrested 35 suspects and seized enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people during a huge three-state drug bust, reports said.