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Drug trafficking

The illegal drug trade in global black markets involving cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs.

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Drug trafficking

methadone

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Methadone (also known as Symoron, Dolophine, Amidone, Methadose, Physeptone, Heptadon and many other names) is a synthetic opioid. It is used medically as an analgesic and a maintenance ...

morphine

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Morphine (sold under nearly a hundred trade names) is an opioid analgesic drug, and the main psychoactive chemical in opium. In clinical medicine, morphine is regarded as the gold standard of ...

magic mushroom

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and psilocin. Common colloquial terms include magic mushrooms and 'shrooms. ...

opium

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Opium (poppy tears, lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Opium contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed ...

valium

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, hypnotic, sedative, skeletal muscle relaxant, and amnestic properties. The pharmacological action of diazepam enhances the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA ...

alprazolam

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Alprazolam (trade name Xanax /zˈænæks/), available under other generic names, is a short-acting anxiolytic of the benzodiazepine class of psychoactive drugs. Alprazolam, like other benzodiazepines, ...

ambien

Law enforcement; Drug trafficking

Ambien is a brand name of zolpidem and is prescribed to treat insomnia (difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep). A short-acting sedative-hypnotic, Ambien is effective in initiating and ...

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