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

CNBC: Antianxiety drugs — often more deadly than opioids — are fueling the next drug crisis

In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction operations.  It’s partly based on studies that show that so-called health food supplements (now considered ‘drugs’) don’t actually work in people who are already healthy: “The program highlights the importance of good nutrition, hydration, rest and recovery, and physical activity in the development and maintenance of good health as opposed to relying on supplements such as multivitamins and protein shakes.”-Lisa Roof, 51st MDG Health Promotion Coordinator

Washington Post: Our justice system is addicted to drugs

U.S. News & World Report: Prison guards, and prisoners, in 2 States Treated for Exposure to Drugs

Fortune: U.S. Overdose Deaths Rose to a Record 72000 Last Year

ALABAMA: CBD oil is illegal in Alabama

50 pounds of marijuana found

lawmaker’s son arrested in predawn drug raid

Man arrested after drugs received in mail

Car Dealership Owner & Another Arrested for meth

Leader of non-profit ‘christian’ group, supposedly helping victims of human trafficking, arrested for drug dealing

ALASKA:  Inside Alaska’s Meth Epidemic

‘The First Lady’ of Mountain View meth ring arrested

Hells Angels arrested in FBI meth bust

man arrested for drug use on school grounds

New report shows fatal opioid overdoses still on the rise

More proof the government is behind drug abuse as Federal court orders opioid maker to continue shipping drugs to Alaska, despite the maker reporting the pharmacy orders as “suspicious”!

ARIZONA: Drug tunnel ran from old KFC in Arizona to Mexico bedroom

Yuma BP agents seize nearly $1 million in drugs

Border agents seize drugs worth $345000 in Nogales

Deaths from heroin, painkiller abuse surge

Couple arrested after toddler ingested meth, fentanyl 

Man found with drugs and stolen Maricopa County Sheriff’s guns!

ARKANSAS:  5 drug deaths in 4 days reported at Arkansas prison

7 people arrested after federal investigation

11 indicted in central Arkansas drug ring

Drug overdoses killing more Arkansans

Marijuana Grower Busted

CALIFORNIA: Despite the use of marijuana being legalized in the Communist state of California, the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force gladly accepted federal tax dollars to help fund the destruction of still illegal marijuana farms found on taxpayer owned land.

22 Arrested in Connection With Helping Sinaloa Cartel 

men arrested for allegedly selling drugs from ice cream truck

“Fresno is the poorest large city… in California…, drug use is about twice the state average…”

Proof the U.S. government is behind drug addiction as federal judge orders No more forcing captured migrant children to take psychotropic drugs

This Oakland ER Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare. (tell me about it, my ex-wife died because a hospital in eastern Idaho refused to treat her for opioid addiction and they were quoting Idaho law that says hospitals can refuse to treat people due to drug addiction!)

COLORADO:  thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs found inside daycare center filled with kids

17 people arrested on 124 drug charges

Despite legalized ganja FBI, DEA orchestrate massive raid of suspected illegal marijuana grow

How many Coloradans are driving high?  (3 out of 4!!!)

Mixed findings on marijuana traffic deaths

CONNECTICUT:  Mass K2 overdose affects more than 70 people 

Deadly K2 drug was created by U.S. pharmaceutical company in Connecticut

7 cops Exposed to Powdery Drug, 2 Hospitalized

Police Seize Cocaine, Heroin & Guns In Drug Bust

Notorious Suspected Dealer, 5 Others Arrested

Drugs Sold Out Of convenience Store

DELAWARE:  fatalities spike: 8 drug deaths in 4 days 

Nearly 100 pounds of cocaine found in pineapples

More than 3500 bags of heroin

Heroin epidemic moves into small towns and swamps police

Dover deli shutdown for selling drugs

Paraplegic man fatally shot in bed by two state troopers during drug bust, in front of his father, cops claim the paralyzed man was going to shoot them!

FLORIDA: couple built drive-thru window at mobile home to sell drugs 

Drug raids target taxpayer funded fire stations, firefighters arrested or dismissed

Hypocrisy?  Controlling drug Addiction With Prescription Drugs

GEORGIA: 17 arrested in Cairo

‘Rolling lab’ able to make 16000 pills per hour busted

$5M in drugs in food boxes seized in metro Atlanta bust

Drugs hidden in cappuccino maker at convenience store

Drugs, gun found on janitor in late night school arrest

GUAM: Man faces meth charge after police conduct traffic stop

Drugs, cash seized; multiple arrests

Car parked near beach leads to prescription drug arrest

Convicted drug dealer and informant violates parole

HAWAII: More than 2 dozen accused of alleged drug trafficking 

IDAHO: Courts identify a 1977 drug sentencing law that could be the cause of out-of-control prison growth, Idaho judge admits “When this statute was written, we didn’t know anything.”  (or maybe the ‘christian’ dominated state is just a bunch of druggies)

Boise women arrested

Migrants(?) caught in Idaho Falls with 90 pounds of meth

11 counties sue prescription drug sellers over opioid epidemic

ILLINOIS:  nurse nets 4 years for stealing opioid patches from patients

six ‘dealers’ arrested in Freeport

Who counts as a drug dealer?

25 people arrested in Rockford

New Law Broadens Synthetic Marijuana Ban

INDIANA: Indiana experiences record year for overdose deaths

Evansville hit by drug dealers

eight arrested Indy drug bust

Drug deal gone bad led to teen’s death

Just two people blamed for central Indiana’s raging drug problem?

Drug bust in Greene/Sullivan Counties

Big bust in Clarksville

IOWA: hospital nurse pleads guilty to stealing pain meds

cop unjustifiably accuses two men of trafficking guns and drugs

Accused drug dealer shoots himself in the nuts!

Raids in Jefferson County net drugs and cash, but not one drug dealer was found.  (can you say tip-off?)

woman pleads guilty to large meth operation

KANSAS: Wichita drugs, guns, cash and arrests

Deputies taken to hospital after finding drugs

68 pounds of meth

Couple forced children to handle drugs 

Meth, jail and love

KENTUCKY: A doctor admits to being a drug addict in ‘Seven days of hell’

Doctors fear being arrested for treating pain

Dentist arrested on drug charges

Drug charges top August indictments

Pet owners abusing their own animals to get drugs

worker drug use, overdoses in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: 38 arrested drugs, prostitution, theft…

 Operation Summer Heat: 71 drug arrests in 5 days

Two women arrested after trying to smuggle drugs inside prison 

21 pounds of marijuana, 2 pounds of meth

K2 hospitalizes 45 people in Lake Charles

MAINE: man who overdosed sues salmon farm for failing to call 9-1-1

massive drug bust in Lewiston

Drug crimes dominate  Aroostook County 

6th worst state in the nation for rise in overdose deaths

MARYLAND: Police inspect “nervous” driver’s semi truck, find enough fentanyl to kill 780,000 people

New ‘street’ drugs that can’t be identified causing overdoses

MASSACHUSETTS:  Despite anti-gun laws a taxpayer funded City of Boston Employee Among 29 Charged in Gun, Drug Bust

Taxpayer funded female State Police Trooper Dishonorably Discharged Over involvement with dealing drugs in the past

11 kilos of heroin and fentanyl

90% of Massachusetts Overdoses Linked to Fentanyl

MICHIGAN: 2 metro doctors got busted for $20M opioid scheme

Doctor charged with drugs for sex crimes

Home Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering With Valium

University of Michigan health system pays $4.3M to settle federal charges for stolen drugs

Drugs killed more Michiganders than guns and traffic combined 

Look up the number of overdose deaths in your county

Police surge into Jackson to fight drugs

Drugs, weapons seized at adult care facility

MINNESOTA: Prince’s Family Sues the Doctor That Prescribed Him Pain Pills

Board of Pharmacy to Ban 2 Types of Synthetic Drugs

Migrant woman pleads guilty to being the leader of massive drug gang connected to Mexico

woman found with 25 pounds of meth 

MISSISSIPPI: Taxpayer funded Tallahatchie County Sheriff revealed to be on drug-gang payroll after protecting local drug dealers from arrest for past 15 years!

6 hospitalized after overdosing on mystery drug

1 dead, another in coma after overdosing on mystery drug 

18 arrested in federal roundup

MISSOURI: Chinese missionary killed by gunman high on drugs

More proof there is no sexual equality as organizations rethink drug recovery for mothers

Woman captured with ‘1.5 million lethal doses’ of drugs

Drugs, counterfeit money and credit card cloning operation 

Nearly $400000 in federal taxpayer funds heading to just two Missouri drug courts

MONTANA: 7 suspects arrested

Migrant sentenced for meth trafficking

Where’s the equality? after Woman gets only ten years probation for drug related death-by-freezing of her baby (a man would’ve been locked up for most of his life)

Montana wants to add more than 200 drug collection boxes

Judge learns taxpayer funded crime lab expert testified while on meth, orders new trial: “The manifest hypocrisy in this situation — when a Montana Department of Justice Employee with meth in his system testified and helped secure another man’s meth possession conviction — is abhorrent.”-District Judge John Parker

HIV cases among drug users up in Montana

NEBRASKA:  German drug maker sues to halt planned execution

2nd drug company to join appeal seeking to stop execution

‘christian’ dominated Nebraska Just Became The First State to Use Fentanyl in an Execution

Drug companies drop lawsuit 

over 200 pounds of drugs found 

Biggest drug bust in York County history

46 pounds of meth

Drug dealer caught because he didn’t use turn signal

NEVADA: doctor faces discipline over illegally accessing Las Vegas shooter’s drug records

Physician assistant found guilty of illegally prescribing drugs

Las Vegas resident accused of mail-order meth & money laundering operation

Las Vegas to receive $125K federal taxpayer funded grant to fight drug abuse

Woman coming down off drugs while in jail was refused medical treatment by prison guards and died, her body was left for hours before being removed from the cell, the incident was caught on security camera video!  (guess what, it happens in Idaho jails and prisons all the time but is usually reported as ‘medical condition’ or ‘self inflicted’)

Elko drug bust nets a quarter-pound of heroin

Tech billionaire arrested after drugs found in Las Vegas Strip hotel

Tesla whistleblower claims rampant theft, drug dealing at Elon Musk Gigafactory 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Police kill man then say he was a druggie

Rise of Meth in New Hampshire

second highest rate of overdose deaths

Keene Fire Department has responded to overdose calls involving people as old as 70 and as young as 16

Taxpayer/Pharma funded RALI New Hampshire hopes to get rid of legal drugs

NEW JERSEY: doctor loses medical license after pleading guilty to illegal drugs charges

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief arrested on drug charges

$5.1M worth of marijuana seized

Israeli based drugs maker Teva gets $40M tax break from you for setting up shop in New Jersey!

Drug treatment in NJ’s jails helps break cycle of crime and addiction  (is that the reason why most states, like Idaho, don’t do it? they like keeping their prisons overcrowded)

NEW MEXICO: Parents accused of beating children, using drugs in front of them

14 Las Cruces Residents Facing Federal heroin Charges

State police officer facing drug charges resigns

NEW YORK: This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Compared With What?

22 arrested in Queensbridge Houses bust

Drugs on the East Side, gambling on the west — 32 busted

Celebrity restaurant busted in massive cocaine ring

About $150000 in narcotics disguised as children’s presents

NORTH CAROLINA: Drug bust was ‘one of the largest’

 Fatal overdoses rising faster than 48 other states

13 arrests part of ‘Operation Nor’easter’ 

NORTH DAKOTA: Homeless man accused of trying to kill drug/cop informant

Drugs Worth $200000 Seized 

Hospice nurses in Minot charged with stealing drugs from patients

Charges dropped in second large I-94 drug bust because of undisclosed “issues” admitted by the sheriff’s department!

tobacco shop owner pleads guilty to drug charges

Dead College Drug/cop Informant Wrongful Death Trial

OHIO: Heroin-fentanyl mix caused ODs at Ross prison, 30 people including prisoners, guards and nurses involved

largest meth bust in Ohio involved Mexicans 

more than $200000 in drugs and cash

Cheaper, purer meth piggybacks opioid crisis in Ohio

16 O-D deaths in five days

The Ohio National Guard has modified software to connect the dots between gun crimes and drug crimes.  It’s part of the state’s decision to treat opioid addiction as a ‘mass casualty event’, watch the official video:

OKLAHOMA: 22 indicted in money laundering, drug trafficking linked to Mexico 

Prisoners Use Sheets in Effort to Get Drugs Into Jail

police chief wants change to marijuana law

Reserve Police Officer Arrested For Trafficking Marijuana

OREGON:  secret drug raid by feds leads to new marijuana-trafficking indictments

Massive Bust Yields Meth, Heroin, And Cash

spike in synthetic opioid overdose deaths

Oregon’s Medicaid program weighs cutting off chronic pain patients from opioids

LIBRARIANS IN OREGON TRAINED TO ADMINISTER DRUG USED TO PREVENT O-D DEATHS

PENNSYLVANIA: Prisons Locked Down After drug exposures

overdose deaths continue to climb

70+ arrested 

Deaths from kratom, sold as an herbal supplement, are rising.

PUERTO RICO:  Aspiring Puerto Rican pro-gamer says she smuggled drugs to NYC to help family survive Hurricane Maria

RHODE ISLAND: How the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisis

Police discover drug treasure trove

school employee among two facing felony drug charges

‘Gurgling’ dad overdosed with 1-year-old in car

Prisoner runs crack cocaine operation from inside prison

SOUTH CAROLINA: Nurse accused of stealing Hydrocodone at Inman nursing home

27 charged

Upper class home turned out to be a drug house

Plastic baggies found outside elementary school filled with heroin

$110000 in marijuana, cash

nurses given broader power to prescribe drugs

University South Carolina selling students overdose drug

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota refuses to Reveal Drug to Be Used in Execution

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2018: Drug arrests up over last year

88 pounds of cocaine

TENNESSEE: overdoses killed more Tennesseans than ever

drug organization laundered $30k in Memphis chicken restaurant

TEXAS:  Two years after his father’s death by opioids, an Army National Guard Specialist was picked to lead Civil Operations in the Panhandle region as part of the Texas National Guard’s Joint Counterdrug Task Force.

Arrests in suspected meth, cocaine conspiracy reach 28

AstraZeneca settles Texas drug lawsuits for $110 million

$1.5 Million in Drugs Found 

Video of drug boat (with more than 2-tons of cocaine) trying to evade capture off the coast of Texas, 03AUG2018:

UTAH: overdose deaths fall 12% 

LDS church (mormon) openly against legalization of marijuana

9.7 lbs. of meth; mom had 2-year-old in car

Relatives of people who died at concert automatically assume it was drugs: “There’s nothing but drugs out there what else could it have been?”-Lilia Martinez, aunt of deceased

Utah man accused of having $100K in drugs mailed to him

VERMONT:  State expands drug-collection program

State Adds 9 More taxpayer funded ‘Drug Recognition Experts’ To Evaluate Driver Impairment

School Administrators Get a Crash Course in Spotting Drug Use

VIRGINIA:  50 suspects indicted on 86 drug related charges

WASHINGTON:  Incorrectly made drugs kill in Spokane

Nez Perce drug and gun arrests

Nightclub managers knew date-rape drug was being sold in their bar

Federal cops threaten Seattle’s plan to provide taxpayer funded ‘safe places’ to inject drugs

marijuana buy turns into gunbattle

Washington State University helping smokers kick the habit by replacing it with addiction to more than a dozen new drugs!

Washington DC:  U.S. Opioid Prescribing Limits May Have Backfired

FDA Did Not Intervene to Curb Risky Fentanyl Prescriptions

The U.S. FDA (Food & Drug Administration) is warning that some prescription diabetes drugs might be causing a deadly flesh eating disease that targets your ‘nads’!

FDA recalls are a reminder that China controls much of world’s drug supply

Snaring Doctors and Drug Dealers

Trump doles out $91M for drug-free community program

Federal tax dollars were spent on the 6th Multilateral Maritime Interdiction and Prosecution Summit held in the Bahamas.  The illegal drugs trade is so bad that 15 regional countries attended the meeting.  This after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ‘allowed’ a major cocaine shipment to pass through the ports of the island country of Haiti!

Watch this official U.S. military NorthCom (U.S. Northern Command) video, and realize the Joint Task Force North was created as a result of the Reagan era War on Drugs to militarize federal and local police, also realize that after 30 years it is a huge taxpayer funded failure (if its true goal was to stop drugs trafficking):

 

WEST VIRGINIA:  overdose deaths exceed 1000

Hepatitis A Outbreak due to illegal drug use 

Martinsburg police shut down 33rd drug house

WISCONSIN: 16 charged in $9.6 million cocaine conspiracy

27% of pharmacies fail to comply with state order concerning Narcan

Employment service wants employers to stop testing for drugs because too many job applicants are on drugs!

Five teenagers arrested

WYOMING:  Wyoming had largest drop in overdose deaths 

33 Arrests in ‘Operation Smack’ 

$7.3 Million Worth of Marijuana Seized 

Cops admit they let drug dealer get away, for the sake of ‘public safety’

Drugs, the American Way, July 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”