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“…the entire country must focus on this!” “drug dealers in Armani suits”: Drugs, the American Way, September 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of September 2018:

Boston Globe: Veterinarians worry that people are taking their pets’ opioids; “People become angry or enraged or belligerent far out of proportion to the level of pain their dog or cat is experiencing. They’re screaming and yelling and using swear words.”-Virginia Sinnott, veterinarian

MedicalExpress: New study says current drug addiction crisis is like “chain reaction that builds to a nuclear explosion.”

Bloomberg: The Secret Drug Pricing System Middlemen Use to Rake in Millions (for more on the failed healthcare system read ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, September 2018: “dangerously low”)

New York Times: Workers Overdose on the Job, and Employers Struggle

The Guardian: Big Pharma nothing but “drug dealers in Armani suits”

BBC: Mexican police turn out to be drug gang (again)

The Seattle Times: Instagram has a drug problem

ALABAMA: mother charged after 5 children test positive for cocaine

police net 27 pounds of pot in drug arrest

Woman charged with smuggling drugs into daughter’s prison

Albertville dog randomly fetches bag full of drugs

ALASKA:   report shows Alaska drug problem worsening

Alaska to get 10M taxpayer dollars to combat opioids

ARIZONA: Ten pounds of heroin stashed in soda-pop 20 pack

Border Patrol arrest seven U.S. citizens who were using shuttle vans to smuggle drugs across the border

 1000 cannabis vape cartridges seized

State funded Border Strike Force cops capture more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine

U.S. Air Force Airmen caught on drugs after crashing into cop car

Former mayoral candidate in Nogales faces cocaine-trafficking charges

ARKANSAS: Drug task force makes 1260 arrests

Authorities Bust International Drug Trafficking Operation

15 migrants arrested 

Arkansas gets 13M taxpayer dollars to fight opioid crisis

CALIFORNIA: 6 Members of L.A. Area Gang Linked to Mexican Mafia Convicted of Racketeering, Drug Trafficking Charges

Reality show doctor charged with California drug rapes

Another doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs which killed five people

Colombian Drug Ring Kingpin Extradited to Los Angeles

California Senate Passes Drug and Needle Take-Back Program (by calling it a ‘take back’ operation are your elected government officials admitting the drugs originated with the government?)

man sentenced to 35 years for using taxpayer supported Amtrak to trafficking drugs

‘Drug Llama’ woman accused of selling 50000 fentanyl pills over the dark web

San Francisco man documents shocking drug dealing ‘madness’ for months, police refuse to take action

largest drug trafficking bust in recent history

University of California San Diego’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research buys its drugs from Canada

COLORADO: Colorado-based international cocaine trafficking ring busted

Meth makes comeback even as opioid epidemic worsens

Irony; The man who made billions of dollars from OxyContin is pushing a drug to wean addicts off opioids

Colorado gets 30m taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

A closer look at the effects of Colorado’s legal weed industry

CONNECTICUT: 515 Fatal Drug Overdoses just In First Half Of 2018

Dark Web Dealer Shipped Fentanyl From Connecticut

Prescription Drug Kickback Lawsuit Names East Haven Couple

17 Arrested In South End Drug Bust 

DELAWARE: deadliest month ever from drug overdoses

running drug operation out of Stanton motel room 

Multiple Drug Arrests in Milford

First responders sickened during overdose investigation

FLORIDA: Yet again, six U.S. tons of cocaine was off-loaded by the U.S. Coast Guard which now says “…the entire country must focus on this!” Watch official video:

Use of Florida’s drug database increases

47 arrested in Martin County

Giant marijuana bundles wash up on Florida beaches

GEORGIA: Edible drugs sold on church property, 2 arrested

Alleged Columbus drug traffickers arrested in Marietta

Homer Simpson- and Hello Kitty-shaped ‘candies’ actually drugs

4 Illegal Aliens Connected to Mexican Cartel Arrested With Nearly $6M in Drugs, Cash, and Weapons on Hand

largest meth seizure in Banks County history

Operation Unicoi Pipeline

rapper Ty Dolla $ign faces drug charges

rapper Columbia BT charged with trafficking $4M worth of cocaine

GUAM: Cocaine an ‘alarming problem’

Man on release in drug case arrested again

Department of Corrections officer’s meth use detailed in federal case

HAWAII: Escaped drug dealer sought

Hawaii gets 8M taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

IDAHO:  drug and hate crimes see double-digit rate increase

Lethal injection drug source is secret for now

California sheriff’s deputies convicted of drug crimes arrested again, this time in Idaho

Twin Falls police arrest man for using fake money in drug deal

ILLINOIS:  Official video explaining why the Illinois National Guard is ramping-up Counter Drug Operations:

Drug task force, feds scores big

Freeport police arrest 20 people in one day

Psychedelic Drug Lab Found In Man’s Bedroom

Feds want to confiscate $500000 in cash found in RV

INDIANA: 10 people arrested in Johnson County after search found stolen gun, drugs

Ten people arrested in Washington County

Shooting investigation leads to drugs

Indiana University offers classes to general public on how to treat overdoses

Do Indiana’s Civil Forfeiture Laws Violate The State Constitution?

Hamilton County given 100-thousand state taxpayer dollars to fight opioids in just two cities

IOWA: Ambulance call leads to arrest

Lawn mower heist, mall lawsuit, meth

men used storage locker for drug distribution 

KANSAS: Nurses charged with Medicaid fraud, stealing patients’ drugs

Kansas Expanding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Man tortured over $185 in lost drug money

Restaurant manager says she caught boss doing drugs in kitchen

KENTUCKY: U.S. Attorney declares war on gangs, guns and drugs in Louisville

Drug-addled and out of work. Here’s how much opioids have hurt Kentucky’s economy.

Rich white brats engaged in drug selling at a university, then tortured one of their own after he was caught-but-released by police, they got ‘light’ sentences, now local news media asks ‘where’s the justice’?

LOUISIANA: 5 arrested in Ascension Parish

22 arrested in Covington

30 pounds of marijuana recovered by police (by using the word ‘recovered’ this Fox15 news outlet implies the ganja came from the police to begin with)

deputies seize $850k+ in illegal drugs

Louisiana Congressman Wants to Drug-Test All of Congress

MAINE: Five arrested in drug raid 

Five arrested in Bucksport, Orland

Man sentenced to prison for selling drugs that killed

restaurant sedates lobsters with marijuana

fifth-highest in nation in prescribing psychotropic drugs

Overdose deaths averaged nearly one per day

MARYLAND: What-the-hell is the taxpayer funded SAMSHA?

Here’s a video of the U.S. Navy’s Health Clinic Annapolis explaining how to track prescription opioid drug users (the government knows who you are), note that it’s labeled “not for public distribution”:

13 indicted In $400K Drug Ring

University of Maryland president admits illegal drug use in football programs!

Are the cops on drugs?  Two stupid cops shot after they conducted a drug raid on the wrong house!

Female security guard kills 3 at Rite Aid drug distribution center

MASSACHUSETTS:  67 baggies of heroin in Whitman

148 bags of heroin in Bernardston

Deadly Hep-A outbreak blamed on drug users

Japanese drug giant will move its U.S. headquarters to Boston

Drug crimes number one reason for incarceration

MICHIGAN: Legal marijuana would ‘change the landscape of Michigan’

Raids at ‘White Boy Justin’ homes seize vast amount of drugs

Canadian trucker busted with 41 kilograms of cocaine, kilo of heroin

Quitting junk food produces similar withdrawal-type symptoms as drug addiction

MINNESOTA: 170 pounds of meth seized in record bust

‘Pink Death’: Synthetic Opioid Returns

$345K worth of marijuana found in southern ditch

Operation Ghostbusters Leads to 11 Charged With Drug Crimes

MISSISSIPPI:  $70M in marijuana in Jefferson Davis County

Teenager admits to using drugs in an attempt to end pregnancy

9 arrested in Hattiesburg

12 arrested during Laurel drug roundup

MISSOURI: KC pharma CEO under fire after asserting ‘moral requirement’ to raise legal drug price 400%!

Massive fentanyl bust in Saint Charles County

Cops capture 20 pounds of meth, because the drug smuggler was driving too slowly

Five arrested in Hannibal

Mom stole dying daughter’s painkillers to feed her opioid addiction

MONTANA: sheriff facing felony charges after drug evidence goes missing

Heroin use on the rise 

Hidden epidemic: Drug-addicted infants

‘Alcohol, drugs and stupidity’: A day in the life of a sheriff’s deputy

NEBRASKA: 1000 pounds of marijuana seized 

12 arrested in Grand Island

80 years old parents of county prosecutor guilty of trafficking marijuana, claimed it was xmas present! 

NEVADA: prisons drug buyer knew firms opposed execution use

teacher arrested on drug charges

NEW HAMPSHIRE: 25 arrested in Grafton County

Rochester fentanyl bust may be biggest ever

NEW JERSEY:  27 charged in South Jersey

At Least 430 Doses Of Heroin, 31 Arrested

Meth use spikes

19 Arrests, $100000 In Heroin In Union County 

NEW MEXICO:  teenager arrested for murder after drug deal

Convicted murderous drug gang leader reveals “It’s all politics. Dirty politics.”

Reservation cops capture 17 pounds of meth, heroin

high rates of drug experimentation among students

Prisoners caught in jail drug smuggling scheme

producers seeing green on medical pot sales

NEW YORK: At the United Nations U.S. president Donald Trump expressed support for the Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem, where was the leftist main stream news media on this? Watch official UN video:

NYC Drug Dealer brought his kids with him to sell Cocaine At Applebee’s

New Yorkers Who Use Drugs Report Changing Behaviors

John Jay College of Criminal Justice accused of sex and drugs crimes

Dumb police trying to figure out where the crack pipe vending machines came from

fentanyl responsible for 44% of New York City overdose deaths

5 men overdose on K2 on the same street corner

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 130 people face federal drug charges after raid on Reservation 

Operation targeting dealers nabs 16 in Harnett County

Correctional officer arrested at women’s prison on drug charges 

Increase in meth deaths outpacing growth in opioid-related fatalities

NORTH DAKOTA: $10000 in narcotics, 4 arrests

woman convicted of killing pregnant neighbor and cutting out the baby was high on drugs

Medical marijuana dispensaries chosen for Bismarck and Fargo

University student will not spend time in jail for selling drugs

OHIO:  Fatal Drug Overdoses Increase to Record Number

Drug ring used restaurants to launder money

Bar loses liquor license after drugs, lap dances bought with food stamps

quadriplegic indicted again in drug-related case

Issue 1 could make Ohio substance abuse magnet

Drug charges against Cincinnati VA Medical Center dropped

OKLAHOMA: FBI takes down Irish Mob meth suppliers

Dangerous counterfeit drugs reported

City Council approves proposal reducing marijuana possession penalty

Body Cam Video Released In Large Drug Bust

OREGON:  Pot in the workplace: Oregon is No. 1 for positive drug tests

23 overdoses in Lane County since weekend

Half-Pound of Meth in Grants Pass, Two Arrests

PENNSYLVANIA: drug deaths increased in 2017

Philadelphia’s weekend overdose spike kills 7, sickens more than 110

Recycling center workers in Bensalem sold discarded ‘take back’ drugs

Prisoners are smuggling medicine to treat their addictions

PUERTO RICO:  

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos captured three smugglers and approximately $3.3 million dollars of cocaine off Loiza, 16SEP2018.

Transnational Criminal Group Used U.S. Postal Service to Traffic Drugs 

RHODE ISLAND: Prison guard sentenced for trying to smuggle drugs into prison

Hemp will be cropping up on farms

SOUTH CAROLINA: 50 People Charged 

Guns, drugs, bulletproof vests seized

$116K in Forest Acres drug arrests

felon had drugs in lunchbox, had illegal gun

correctional officers arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs 

SOUTH DAKOTA: She reported on the opioid epidemic for years, then, her daughter died of an overdose

Jail guard charged with attempting to help an accused drug dealer escape

TENNESSEE: O-D deaths set another record, upsetting insurance companies

Nearly 100 pounds of marijuana seized in Clarksville

19-year-old Mexican immigrant busted with 10 pounds of meth

How to spot a drug house

Kindergarten school teacher among 6 arrested 

TEXAS:  Texas National Guard Joint Counterdrug Task Force continues using the War on Drugs as an excuse to demolish houses in poverty stricken areas (as if that will somehow make drug crimes go away, truth is that no body wants to buy a house used by druggies, it’s like buying a house where somebody died), local school children are even forced to watch.

$18 million worth of cocaine hidden in several boxes of bananas headed for Texas prisons

tow truck caught with 63 pounds of Cocaine

18 Arrests

meth is top threat to Texas

‘low risk prisoners’ operating county jail drug smuggling ring

UTAH: Cops sickened after discovering drug lab 

corrections officer jailed on drug, alcohol charges after fatal crash

Woman driver fails to yield the right-of-way, gets arrested for drugs

Mexican immigrant known for drug smuggling caught with 5.8 pounds of meth

VERMONT:  Woman uses 100 Bags Of Heroin A Day

Vermont Sues OxyContin Maker 

Spate of Overdoses

State-federal Cops capture 14-thousand bags of heroin

VIRGINIA: ‘Operation California Dreamin’ 

Woman accused of using glitter & crayons to mail drugs

‘drastic spike’ in drug overdoses

WASHINGTON:  LEAD program expansion means drugs are legal in King County

Nearly $1M cash, 33 guns and 10-thousand fentanyl pills

Nearly 60 pounds of drugs, 29 guns seized in Pierce County

Washington DC: FDA approves new class of drugs

WEST VIRGINIA: New arrests reveal new multi-state drug pipeline

Half of West Virginians know someone addicted to prescription drugs 

Nearly 100 arrested in Fayette County

33 under federal indictment in meth bust

doctor wrote 130 opioid prescriptions a day, seven days per week, says she did nothing wrong.

WISCONSIN:  high school student charged for selling marijuana, pills

drug trafficking on interstate 41

140 grams of fentanyl, heroin recovered (by using the word ‘recovered’ this Fox6Now headline makes it sound like the drugs originally came from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department)

WYOMING: DCI Busts Casper-Area Meth Ring

Cheyenne teens arrested on felony drug charges

Seven arrested in Torrington

Wyoming gets more than 4.8M federal taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

Report of Prostitution Results in Drug Arrests

Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’