In the fiscal year ending in October 2008, officers at Arizona's border crossings seized close to 75,000 pounds of illicit narcotics, with an estimated street value of more than $235 million.
As estimated 26 million Americans have chronic pain in the lower back, and roughly 15% end up on narcotics, with an increasing number taking potent remedies such as Purdue Pharma's OxyContin.
58 Constipation is the most common gastrointestinal adverse effect of opioid narcotics, with an incidence about 40%.
Update, 2 15 p.m. -- In a press release, the Buckeye Police Department said that before stopping Sanchez, officers had received information that a car similar to his was "allegedly carrying a large amount of illegal narcotics with a possible armed occupant".
Pairing a pain medication like oxycodone, a narcotic, with an anti-anxiety drug like Xanax, a so-called benzodiazepine, amplifies the tranquilizing effects of both, doctors say.
Review of prescribing errors indicated that most errors were associated with narcotics—an Institute for Safe Medication Practices-defined high-alert medication.
But instead of dedicating his life to outsmarting the cops and ruling the underground narcotics trade with an iron fist, Gose decided to plead guilty in April.
He is now jailed at New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center, awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics with intent to support a terrorist organization.
Left unchecked by his State Health Department bosses, a supervising narcotics investigator with a yen for addictive fentanyl lollipops took over a New York City narcotics control office, abused suspects' rights and endangered lives, the New York State inspector general has found.
D1 Life Sentence Without Parole Peter Rollack, 26, who pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering indictment that charged him and 10 other members of his Bronx narcotics gang with a series of murders, was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
When two detectives from the Internal Affairs Bureau, Sgt. Robert Boyce and Sgt. Michael McWilliams, headed up to Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y., on March 16 , 1995 their mission was to get whatever information they could -- something, anything -- to bring down a fellow cop, an undercover narcotics detective with a spotless record named Zaher Zahrey.
