When Going Gets Tough, a Not-So-Tough Turns to Meth
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âBreaking Bad,â a new seven-part series on AMC about a middle-aged chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who becomes a methamphetamine dealer, wants no part of the Hollywood formula.
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GILBERT, W.Va. -- When his craving for painkillers got to be too much, Steve Dotson lay down and let his wife drive a car over his leg. It hurt, but he could dismiss the pain with thoughts of the medicated bliss that would follow. Soon, he lost his house, the state took his children away and he w...
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
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The problem with taking the path of most resistance is multilayered: It is difficult and it can keep you from succeeding at your true calling.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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As its rivals have diversified and taken risks, the Coca-Cola Company, has struggled to reinvent itself.
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The bigger they are, the harder they (might) fall.
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The bigger they are, the harder they could fall.
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A groundbreaking California program designed to get drug abusers the medical help they need and alleviate strain on the state&#39;s prison system faced challenges in its first six months, according to a new study.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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Rural roads are being traveled by more and more people, leading to an increase in fatal wildlife-related crashes.
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It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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Many cocaine swallowers have gone belly-up with the introduction of new anti-drug trafficking strategies.
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A teenage boy learns a difficult lesson about synthesizing his own recreational drugs.
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Recent avalanche-related deaths in Utah have stirred debate about where to draw the line between free will and recklessness.