It shouldn't take you long, though, to figure out what his narcotic is.
The police believe that the men had information about when Ms. Duda refilled her prescription for what they wanted: narcotic painkillers.
That's what some prosecutors and narcotics agents demand, but doctors realize that there are plenty of illegal drug users who also need pain relief.
Mr. Garcia said he saw about 20 officers from what appeared to be narcotics units and SWAT teams, which the Police Department refers to as emergency services units, enter the building.
Five people said to be part of what Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor, called the "extremely sophisticated and fast-moving" drug-smuggling operation were arrested, and $50,000 was seized, Mr. Kelly said.
"I wanted to understand what the effects of narcotics mixed with booze are when you're in pain.
The United Nations made the problem clear in a 2013 report on world narcotics use: "What makes new psychoactive substances especially dangerous and problematic is the general perception surrounding them.
What place do stimulants, depressants, narcotics and hallucinogens have in our understanding of pop sounds — tempos, textures, legibility?
Federal authorities announced yesterday that they had broken up what they called an international narcotics ring in which Dominican drug dealers in New York were importing thousands of Ecstasy tablets from the Netherlands.
WASHINGTON — Medicare is subsidizing drug abuse by thousands of beneficiaries who shop around for doctors and fill prescriptions for huge quantities of painkillers and other narcotics far exceeding what any patient could safely use, Congressional investigators say in a new report.
