There are hundreds of vendors to choose from, selling every conceivable narcotic: heroin, opium, cocaine, acid, weed, steroids, prescription.
It was supposed to only be a few ounces of weed and some cigarettes, but eventually turned into a cornucopia of every consumable narcotic known to man.
The biggest police race case in New York City in years, Diallo -- the 1998 killing of a black man standing in the doorway of his Bronx building by four panicky white policemen -- touched every Harlem narcotics officer in the room that day to the core.
The book was a soothing narcotic for every middle-aged woman in America who embraced the fantasy, "What would have happened if I pursued an art career instead of getting married to this asshole and having all these idiot kids?" Moms who abandoned their dreams of being a painter, or a poet, or a mime, got to live vicariously through Just Kids.
Foreign countries, he said, were "using every pretext from forced labour and narcotic drugs, to [complaints about] health and education conditions to interfere in internal affairs".
A narcotic haze descends on Yemen every afternoon, as men stuff their mouths with glossy khat leaves until their cheeks bulge and their eyes glaze over.
The patient was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis without systemic complications (Ranson's score 2, APACHE II score 4, BISAP 1) and treated conservatively with fasting, narcotic analgesia (pethidine 50 mg subcutaneously every 6 h for the first 24 h) and intravenous fluids.
Still, it wasn't long before I was skimming through the medicine cabinets of every residence I entered to see if they had any narcotic pain medications.
Ultimately, the answer is that, in 1961, Britain was pressured into signing the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs – a US-led policy formally committing every member state to prohibition.
