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Violence-hit Ecuador chooses next president
AFP, Published on 09/02/2025
» QUITO - Some 14 million Ecuadorans began voting Sunday to decide who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation through its worst crisis in half a century.
Meth boom adds to Afghanistan's opium and heroin woes
AFP, Published on 19/12/2019
» KABUL - At a sprawling rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Kabul, dozens of dazed-looking drug addicts clamber out of police buses and shuffle toward the facility.
America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
AFP, Published on 18/10/2019
» NEW YORK - In a windowless hangar at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, dozens of law enforcement officers sift through packages, looking for fentanyl -- a drug that is killing Americans every day.
Big pharma founder convicted of bribery in opiates scandal
AFP, Published on 03/05/2019
» NEW YORK: The founder of a major US pharmaceutical company has been convicted of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers blamed for fueling an opioid crisis that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Trump to seek death penalty for drug dealers
AFP, Published on 19/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will present on Monday his plan to combat an opioid abuse epidemic which will include seeking the death penalty for drug traffickers.