drugs

Have You Talked To Your Parents About Drugs? The Startling Rise Of Baby Boomer Drug Abuse

Marva Hinton — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Baby boomers have become addicted to drugs at an alarming rate.

The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released in 2012, found illicit drug use among people between the ages of 55 and 59 had increased more than any other group.

South Florida May Be Source Of Banned Drugs In Major League Baseball

Arianna Prothero — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000

South Florida may be a source for banned performance-enhancing drugs making their way into major league baseball.

Pill Mills Migrate North To Georgia

Kenny Malone — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Florida's war on so-called "pill mill" pain clinics appears to be pushing the problem into Georgia.

The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2010, there were just 10 pain clinics in the state of Georgia. Today, there are more than 125 clinics and the state's per capita prescriptions of oxycodone has tripled in the last decade.

Bal Harbour Chief Suspended As Cash-Cow 'Task Force' Comes Under Federal Scrutiny

Rick Stone — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:21:07 +0000

Bal Harbour Police Chief Thomas Hunker remains suspended with pay today in connection with his department's far-ranging anti-drug operations that yielded no prosecutions but kept his officers flush with ready cash.

Hunker is accused of professional misconduct in a Justice Department review of the department project that sent Bal Harbour officers all over the country to pose as money launderers for drug gangs. The department operated under rules that allowed it to keep up to 80 percent of the cash after turning the rest over to the Justice department.

How The Government Set Up A Fake Bank To Launder Latin American Drug Money

David Kestenbaum — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:37:49 +0000

In the early 1990s, Colombian drug cartels had a problem: They had more money than they knew what to do with.

"They were having a very difficult time with just the logistics of laundering millions and millions and millions of dollars every week," says Skip Latson, who worked for the DEA at the time.

So Latson and Bill Bruton, who was a special agent with the IRS, hatched a plan: They'd create a fake, offshore bank catering to the needs of the drug cartel.

Latson and Bruton got their bosses to sign on.