Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of February 2018.
“Teaching kids about the harms of drugs isn’t really a prevention tactic, it doesn’t really work. They know that drugs are dangerous.”-Alfgeir Kristjansson, School of Public Health at West Virginia University, making a statement about something that’s actually common knowledge but none of your political/social/law enforcement leaders want to admit to
Trust for America’s Health: Drugs killing record numbers of people, still top killer of ‘whites’
Click to see the ClinCalc DrugStats Top 200 Drugs of 2018, and find out where your fav legal drug ranks.
Israel based Teva Pharmaceuticals lied about its low cost version of Syprine, people who need it were shocked to learn it will still cost them more than $18-thousand USD per pill!
Wall Street Journal: Hidden Profits In the Prescription Drug Supply Chain
Washington Post: Divorce, drugs, drinking: Billy Graham’s children
Several mid-west states reporting that drugs trafficking along Interstate 94 is skyrocketing.
Several western states want to import cheaper drugs from British empire Canada.
In a case of ironic hypocrisy, the drugs industry is pushing the concept of vaccines to prevent drug addiction!
Associated Press: “…some large law enforcement agencies have recently abandoned the routine tests out of concern that officers could be exposed to opioids that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. Even a minute amount of the most potent drugs, such as fentanyl, can cause violent illness or death.”
snopes.com: Are All Homeopathic Drugs Now Illegal?
naturalnews.com: 77 holistic doctors now dead since 2015, is it a pharmaceutical industry conspiracy?
Human Rights Watch: U.S. nursing homes over-medicate patients on purpose!
Illegal drugs are so pervasive that one person got rich creating software that allows players of video game The Sims 4 to do drugs in virtual reality!
Arkansas: A Siloam Springs man arrested for dealing drugs at church. Elementary school teacher arrested for possession of six pounds of cocaine in her Little Rock home.
California: A man who called himself the Rehab Mogul (because he owned at least 13 drug rehabilitation centers) was actually a drug dealer, Christopher Bathum was convicted of 31 counts of sex and drug crimes. Opioid kills three people, bodies found near a San Francisco school.
Connecticut: Out of fear of lawsuits, Stamford based Purdue Pharma halted promotional ops to get doctors to push their opioid drugs.
Florida: Overdoses, DUIs, stolen drugs. State Department of Law Enforcement accuse two Titusville cops of buying illegal drugs.
Idaho: Two people were arrested after the Idaho Falls Police Department seized 504 grams of marijuana and 1.4 grams of methamphetamine.
Illinois: Federal indictments of nine people on drugs charges reveal link to unsolved murders going back to 2016.
Indiana: Police responding to reports of vehicles blocking access to postal mail boxes (which is a federal crime) ended up arresting six people on drug and counterfeiting charges in Columbus. Kids Count Report from the Indiana Youth Institute says drug overdoses now kill more Hoosiers than car crashes and gun violence combined!
Iowa: Is the state Department of Human Services accusing parents of doing drugs in order to ‘legally kidnap’ children? In the latest case a woman who swears she’s never done illegal drugs, and also tested negative for illegal drugs, is still fighting to get her child back (and have her name removed from child abuse records) after a DHS employee burst into her home, without a warrant, and stole her child!
Kentucky: The gov’na blames mass shootings on prescription drugs.
Maryland: USN running drugs as an investigation into a report of illegal drug use at the U.S. Naval Academy gets underway. Baltimore Police Stole, Sold Drugs and Covered Up Killings!
Michigan: The son of billionaire Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch was found dead in a Troy hotel, surrounded by drugs. A former The Voice contestant arrested and accused of trafficking marijuana and opioids.
Missouri: A 21 years old woman sentenced to 40 years for murdering a Mexican drug dealer, in an attempt to avoid paying her illegal drugs bill.
New Jersey: Non-profit hospitals are so desperate to save money they’re proposing a plan that will allow them to make their own prescription drugs. Prospect Park Police arrest a man with drugs near Manchester High School (maybe it is a ‘high’ school).
New York: Columbia University discovered the Hudson River is full of prescription drugs. A Niagara County Probation Officer finally caught stealing prescription drugs from parolees, the victims said they were afraid to report the crime-by-cop because of fear of retribution and the fact that nobody believes a parolee.
North Carolina: A Hickory man and a Phoenix, Arizona, woman both were charged in Morganton for trafficking drugs. Greenville woman arrested for trafficking more than two pounds of ‘coke’, in front of her children.
Ohio: State Department of Health warning that synthetic opioid fentanyl is being mixed with other drugs, resulting in overdoses.
Oklahoma: Two people arrested for dealing drugs right in front of the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office!
Oregon: A man found with a firearm, a knife, meth and marijuana after he was suspected of car prowling in Northwest Portland, on 26FEB2018.
Pennsylvania: Neshannock Township police confiscated drugs and money, and arrested two men from New Castle’s East Side.
South Carolina: A 20 years old ‘christian’ woman had a really bad trip and gouged out her own eyes during a church service! Apparently the meth-ganja mix she took before church caused her to think she had to blind herself to get to heaven.
Tennessee: Uber driver arrested with multiple drugs in his system.
Texas: A woman tried to hide her illegal drugs by shitting on them while detained inside a Corsicana cop car!
Utah: A woman arrested with 35 pounds of meth and ‘coke’, she gave the excuse that “I am just a single mom and I was offered an opportunity.” She also doesn’t know how to drive because that’s how she was caught.
Vermont: A Canadian was arrested trying to smuggle illegally made prescription drugs into the United States on a sled. Apparently he had been doing it since 2016, because ‘Mericans are so addicted to prescription drugs that drug runners from British empire Canada can make millions of U.S. dollars every time they cross the border with their stash.
Washington: Seattle based Amazon wants in on the drugs racket by launching its own line of non-prescription drugs. Everett man accused of raping a high school student as she died from an overdose.
Washington DC: A Senate level investigation revealed that the pharmaceutical industry spent at least $10-million USD to promote opioid drug use! Gizmodo reports that the FDA is trying to make it easier for you to get drugs. The FDA even approved a record number of generic prescription drugs (1-thousand and 27) in 2017! While the Food & Drug Administration wants to make it easier for you to get your prescription meds, the FDA discovered that mass produced canned pet food is laced with drugs designed to kill! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that ‘Mericans love for legal drugs will cause taxpayer funding of prescription drugs to grow faster than any other segment of healthcare.
West Virginia: Parkersburg police arrest two people after a drug bust at a motel in Mineral Wells.
Wisconsin: 64-year-old Milwaukee man placed on probation for sending a drug to his son who is serving time in Fox Lake Correctional Institution.
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