Drug officials note cocaine shortage
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Wholesale prices of cocaine have risen in more than a dozen major U.S. cities as supplies of the powerful drug have shrunk, including in high-volume markets such as Los Angeles and New York, White House drug czar John Walters said.
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Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very useful," said Dr.
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Cocaine's street price is falling because it is being cut with a carcinogenic painkiller, say police.
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Paramilitaries are holding NI to ransom with drugs, mourners of a man who died after taking ecstacy are told.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with ...
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Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug
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THE ISLAND'S postal service has again come under scrutiny from foreign drug enforcement agencies as a report out of the United Kingdom said packages of crack/cocaine worth millions of dollars were seized in ...
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Britain faces a shortage of a powerful painkiller used to treat cancer patients, the Department of Health reports. It said a supply problem with the opiate-based drug diamorphine meant stocks would soon reach
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The report is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nationÂs drug supply and the adequacy of government oversight.
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AIDS drugs &#151; some of them contaminated, diluted or faked &#151; are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, the health ministry said Monday.
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Many cocaine swallowers have gone belly-up with the introduction of new anti-drug trafficking strategies.
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Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.
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LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradication  of coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drug  traffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drug  production there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,  Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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The U.S. Coast Guard seized a record  240,518 pounds of cocaine worth $7.7 billion over the past  year, thanks partly to faster ships that are no longer outrun  by drug smugglers.
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American-backed counter-narcotic programs in Colombia and Mexico are disrupting the flow of cocaine into the United States, driving up prices 44 percent on U.S. streets this year, the White House drug czar said Thursday.
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A Franco-Spanish narcotics operation has netted a shipment of three tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated 200 million euros (250 million dollars), French police have said.
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Contraband that went missing after being seized by customs officers is confirmed as 1.5kg of cocaine.