Sentence examples for narcotics problem from inspiring English sources

"The gang problem we have is really a narcotics problem," Mr. McCarthy said.

Politicians are mindful of how Punjab's narcotics problem galvanised support for an upstart party that made it an issue.

The Royal Thai Government has been making extensive efforts at home and in cooperation with other countries to address the narcotics problem faced by Thailand.

He formed a distressingly limited view of the nation's narcotics problem, which, in 1973, led to the "Rockefeller drug laws," legislation that mandated prison terms of fifteen years to life for possessing or selling even small amounts of "hard" drugs.

At first Wood advocated — in an unclassified e-mail message, surprisingly — a massive aerial-eradication program that would wipe out 80,000 hectares of poppies in Helmand Province, delivering a fatal blow to the root of the narcotics problem.

Advocates of treating the narcotics problem as more of a public health issue now see the new team that Mr. Bush is putting together as representing a fairly traditional law-and-order perspective on the drug war.

Mr. Zedillo, an economist who was trained at Yale and who has rarely displayed personal interest in the narcotics problems, did not refer today to Chief de la Torre's killing in his speech to a government audience.

"They say, 'Grab him, he's a big black body.' " There is a logic to it -- the poorest neighborhoods tend to be black or Hispanic and often have the biggest street narcotics problems.

"The next day, after we left town, a bunch of officers testified, saying that Rick Wershe was responsible for all the narcotics problems that the city of Detroit had ever had, that he was tangentially involved in a bunch of murders," Schwarz said.

In West Africa, he admitted, there was also a major narcotics trafficking problem.

The use of prescription narcotics, and the problems associated with them, are so pervasive that, last month, the Food and Drug Administration recommended tightening regulations for how doctors prescribe some of the most commonly used narcotic painkillers.