Dr. Irfan Dhalla, who has studied the opioid-addiction problem, is skeptical about Purdue Pharma’s marketing claims that switching from OxyContin to OxyNEO will result in fewer misuse and abuses of the potentially lethal drugs.
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Creative Drug Users: OxyNEO another prescription for disaster?
Dr. Irfan Dhalla, who has studied the opioid-addiction problem, is skeptical about Purdue Pharma’s marketing claims that switching from OxyContin to OxyNEO will result in fewer misuse and abuses of the potentially lethal drugs.
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Krokodil: The Drug That Eats Junkies
Oleg glances furtively around him and, confident that nobody is watching, slips inside the entrance to a decaying Soviet-era block of flats, where Sasha is waiting for him. Ensconced in the dingy kitchen of one of the apartments, they empty the contents of a blue carrier bag that Oleg has brought with him – painkillers, iodine, lighter fluid, industrial cleaning oil, and an array of vials, syringes, and cooking implements.
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B.C. Gangsters in Over Their Heads in Mexico
Gangsters from British Columbia are increasingly doing business with drug cartels in Mexico — a recklessly naive trend that has resulted in five deaths in the past four years, police say.
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Cocaine Stuffed Pineapples
RCMP and border officials shed more light Thursday on what they say is a scheme to repeatedly import drugs into Canada, with cocaine-stuffed pineapples intercepted at a port in New Brunswick and marijuana packaged around watermelons seized from trucks in Ontario.
Vancouver-Sydney Drug Bust
A quantity of cocaine is seen in this file photo. Five Australians have been arrested in connection with a scheme to traffic drugs between Vancouver and Sydney.
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Colombian Cartel Kingpin Killed
A Colombian drug lord who flooded the U.S. and Mexico with cocaine was shot dead in his own home on New Year’s Eve during a police raid.
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Rio de Janeiro’s Most Wanted Drug Baron Arrested for 30 Years
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Frank Lucas Charged with Theft by Deception
Frank Lucas, the Harlem drug kingpin whose life inspired the 2007 film starring Denzel Washington, was charged with theft by deception last month after he tried to bilk the U.S. Treasury out of $17,345 meant for his teenage son, authorities said.
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This Drug-Detecting Straw Might Prevent Date Rapes
Two scientists have developed a sensor that can automatically and accurately detect if date-rape drugs are in your drink. All you have to do is dip the straw in your drink and see if it lights up.
Cheap Housing Luring Canadian Marijuana Growers Into U.S.: RCMP Report
VANCOUVER — The U.S. housing crash has lured some marijuana growers to move their operations south of the border, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by the Vancouver Sun.
