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Search results for "drug addicts" ...
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The Perfect Drug
This investigation is an in-depth look at the role methamphetamine plays in Phoenix, Arizona. The reporters explored and dispelled various myths about the drug. They also traced the community's problem to a Mexican supply, and found that the drug even had a presence in elementary school.
Tags: drugs; addiction; rehabilitation; DEA; meth; meth labs; treatment centers; pseudoephedrin
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High on Prison Life
The authors uncovered the excessive prescribing of very strong and highly addictive pain-killers in Washington State prisons.
Tags: FOIA; drug abuse; prisons; Morphine; Oxycodone; inmates
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Controlling Addiction
This three month investigation of a teen drug abuse program exposed the organization's use of mind control techniques to keep patients from leaving. Following the broadcast the program founder resigned amidst a state investigation.
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The politics of meth
The Oregonian found that Mexico has allowed drug companies to import twice as much pseudoephedrine as they need to produce cold medicines, and that the surplus is feeding a massive increase in methamphetamine production by drug cartels. Mexican cartels remain the dominant source of meth in the United States, and U.S. officials have failed to curb the cartels' access to pseudoephedrine. The supply of meth is now at a near-record high, addiction is unabated and the purity of meth has doubled since 1999, reaching its highest level in a decade.
Tags: CAR; methamphetamine; pseudoephedrine; cold medicines; narcotrafficking; drug companies; drug trade; drug addiction; international trade; Mexico
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Generation Meth
The six-day series explores the topic of female meth addicts. The series looks at treatment, what happens to addicts' children, and Utah attitudes that prohibit proper funding for this problem
Tags: methamphetamine; meth; meth labs; meth users; drugs; addiction; substance abuse; female meth addicts; Salt Lake City; Utah
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The Pain Train
This investigation explores the abuse of prescription drugs paid for by taxpayers. Specifically, it found that people enrolled in TennCare (the state's version of Medicaid) would get free narcotics which they could then turn around and sell to addicts on the street. Not only do the taxpayers cover the initial expense of the drugs, but they also pay for the people who die from or overdose on prescription drugs.
Tags: Medicaid; hospital; narcotics; Dilaudid; TennCare; Medicaid; addiction; morphine; drug-dealers; DEA; Computer Assisted Reporting; FOIA
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Shakedown and Addicted in the Line of Duty, Rotten Apples
A 2-year investigation in Toronto finds many undercover police officers using their badges to take payoffs from gangsters, steal drugs, sell drugs, kidnap people, and even commit murder. By prying open documents which had been sealed for nearly two years, charges were made-six officers with 22 crimes-in January of 2004.
Tags: Toronto Police Drug Squad; corruption; undercover cops; drugs
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Generation Meth
"Generation Meth tackled the skyrocketing use of meth among Utah women and exposed the state's inadequate response to this epidemic...The series examined how meth addiction burdens Utah's courts, prisons, police agencies and child welfare systems.
Tags: drug use; narcotics; methamphetamine; child welfare; child abuse; health and human services
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Wheeler Dealer: How Minnesota Cops and the War on Drugs Made a Successful Entrepreneur out of a Small-Time Hustler and Snitch Named Michael Felix
This article tells how a police informant actually abused his protected position and profited from selling drugs himself. The whole time that the police thought he was buying drugs to track down dealers, he was actually dealing them, right across the street from a school. His presence wrecked havoc on the community of Detroit Lakes.
Tags: drugs; narcotics; addiction; dealers; marijuana; methamphetamine; DEA
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War Without Victory
This series describes the facets of the war on drugs in Washington state, particularly areas that seemed too "small town" to have any drug problems. It involves a vivid description of the drug war in Snohomish County, the effects of drugs on newborn babies who carry on their mothers' addiction, how some drug offenders never spend a single day in jail, and also a study of how the legal system handles drug cases.
Tags: drug war; Washington; cocaine babies; drug-fighting agencies; Snohomish County