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What is xylazine? A medical toxicologist explains how it increases overdose risk, and why Narcan can still save a life

by Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a warning on Mar. 21, 2023, about an increase in trafficking of...

14 alleged Black Guerilla Family gang members indicted on racketeering charges

BALTIMORE (AP) _ Local and federal authorities announced indictments against 14 men they say are members of a notoriously vicious gang known for violence,...

Inmate at center of Baltimore jail scandal gets 12 years

BALTIMORE (AP) — The same prosecutors who painted a gang member as the architect of a widespread drug and cellphone smuggling conspiracy said Monday...

Prosecutors: Prep school graduates ran drug ring

ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Two prep school graduates sought to use their sports connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales...

Public Enemy Number One: Chapo's rise from poor, abused to cartel kingpin

It was nighttime in May of 1990, in the heyday of the cocaine boom across America. Twenty Mexican federal police officers and a handful...

Infamous drug lord freed after conviction overturned in 1985 killing of DEA agent

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. (AP Photo/File) by Adriana Gomez LoconAssociated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Inmate had five kids with four prison guards while incarcerated; 13 guards indicted

TAVON WHITE by Alex Dominguez BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 13 female corrections officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into Baltimore's jail and other correctional facilities.

AP IMPACT: Cartels dispatch agents deep inside US

BUSTED-- In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, bales of marijuana are wheeled out at a news conference in Jonesboro, Ga. Forty-five people were arrested 45 people along with cash, guns and more than two tons of drugs as part of an investigation by federal and local law enforcement into the Atlanta-area U.S. distribution hub of Mexico's La Familia drug cartel. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink) by Michael Tarm CHICAGO (AP) — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

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