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History of Drug Trafficking

WebThe War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by dramatically increasing prison sentences for …

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Heroin, Morphine and Opiates

(5 days ago) WebThe War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by dramatically increasing prison sentences for …

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Golden Age Hollywood Had a Dirty Little Secret: Drugs

(7 days ago) WebReynolds had just discovered one of Old Hollywood’s dirty little secrets—that drugs fueled its classic films. Between the 1920s and 1960s, Hollywood studios created some of …

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G.I.s’ Drug Use in Vietnam Soared—With Their Commanders’ Help

(8 days ago) WebHeroin started flowing more freely into Vietnam from Cambodia in 1970, a consequence of that nation’s civil war. According to a Pentagon study, by 1973 up to 20 percent of …

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Inside the Drug Use That Fueled Nazi Germany

(3 days ago) WebNov 21, 2016. In his bestselling book, “Der Totale Rausch” (The Total Rush)—recently published in English as “Blitzed”—Ohler found that many in the Nazi regime used drugs …

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The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control

(7 days ago) WebMK-Ultra’s “mind control” experiments generally centered around behavior modification via electro-shock therapy, hypnosis, polygraphs, radiation, and a variety of drugs, toxins, …

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9 Doping Scandals That Changed Sports

(5 days ago) WebIn 2016, the former head of an anti-doping laboratory in Moscow blew the whistle on a state-run initiative to provide Russian athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, and to hide …

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7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

(3 days ago) WebThat didn’t stop other unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent salesmen, who also started traveling the American West, peddling bottles of fake snake oil, giving the truly beneficial …

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How Civil War Medicine Led to America's First Opioid Crisis

(4 days ago) WebIn the early 1880s, the doctor and prominent opioid expert Thomas Davison Crothers met with an unnamed Union veteran with an opium addiction who had started taking the drug …

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Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose

(2 days ago) WebFar from being an empty cliché, “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” was a revolutionary philosophy to many in the late 1960s, and Janis Joplin was its leading female exponent. …

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8 Times America’s War on Drugs Was Stranger Than Fiction

(4 days ago) Web3. Richard Nixon started the official “war.”. The term “ War on Drugs ” entered the public consciousness in 1971, when President Nixon fired one of the opening salvos. Featuring …

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America's War on Drugs

(1 days ago) Web“America’s War on Drugs” is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied …

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Heath Ledger dies of accidental prescription drug overdose

(2 days ago) WebThe report stated that he died of an accidental “abuse of prescription medications” that included commonly known painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills. After …

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