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unusual facts about Narcotics



Active placebo

Clonidine is now finding more use as an active placebo for narcotics as well.

Bhisadej Rajani

In the 1969 narcotics crisis, during which hill tribes villagers in the northern territory grew opuim, King Bhumibol Adulyadej established the Royal Project centred at Fang District under his command to encourage the hill tribes to renounce opium-growing.

CCGS Parizeau

The Destiny Empress initially became a target for surveillance after a diligent UK police detective, executing a raid on a suspected drug house in connection with a narcotics and money laundering investigation in London, noticed a receipt for over £100,000 in ship repairs paid to Irving Shipbuilding, owner of Shelburne Ship Repair Ltd., a shipyard in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Cemil Bayık

On April 20, 2011, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the designation of PKK founders Cemil Bayik and Duran Kalkan and other high-ranking members as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).

Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

D-Company

Three years later, President George W. Bush designated Ibrahim and D-Company as a significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.

Differential mobility detector

For instance, it was incorporated by Varian in its CP-4900 DMD MicroGC, and by Thermo Fisher in its EGIS Defender system, designed to detect narcotics and explosives in transportation or other homeland security applications.

Economy of Haiti

The Service d'Intelligence National, nominally a counter-narcotics agency created after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, participated in drug trafficking.

Ellsworth Van Graafeiland

That appeal reversed a decision by Judge Constance Baker Motley of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who had previously ruled that New York State sentences of up to life in prison for the sale of small amounts of narcotics were unconstitutionally severe.

Frank Polizzi

Involved in loansharking, extortion, illegal gambling and especially narcotics activities, Polizzi continued to operate in the Newark faction of the family throughout the 1960s, but as Sam DeCavalcante took over the family in 1965, Polizzi was passed over of being promoted, as Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi was made captain of DeCavalcante's crew.

French Connection

Former New York City Police Department Narcotics Bureau detective Sonny Grosso has stated that the kingpin of the French Connection heroin ring during the 1950s into the 1960s was Corsican Jean Jehan.

French Connection II

Picking up where the original left off, narcotics officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for the elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey).

Gang Related

Renegade police detectives Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Jake Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) gun down narcotics dealer Lionel Hudd (Kool Moe Dee), after the three engage illegally in drug trafficking; this is in order to recover the cocaine Hudd purchased from them.

Greenville County Sheriff's Office

They also oversee the public service workers in their clean-up activities, as well as assisting Vice and Narcotics with the clean-up of Methamphetamine manufacturing sites which are considered hazardous materials sites.

Jacob Katzenberg

During the early 1930s, following regulations by the League of Nations for countries to reduce drug production to meet domestic medical needs, the availability of narcotics began to decline and travelled to Asia following the end of Prohibition in 1933.

Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude

He then became the informant of police officer Lucien Aimé-Blanc, former vice chief of staff of the Antigang brigade and of the Narcotics brigade.

Jorge Scientific Corporation

The company made international headlines in October 2012 when two former employees leaked a video to ABC News showing key personnel at the company drunk or under the influence of narcotics during parties that were allegedly thrown “every other day” at the Jorge Scientific operations centre in Kabul.

K9s4COPs

Harris County Precinct 1, Harris County Sheriff's Office, the Pasadena Police Department in Pasadena, Texas, Missouri City Police Department in Missouri City, Texas, and Goodhue County Sheriff's Department in Red Wing, Minn., all received K9s trained for narcotics searches and patrol, while the Houston Metro Police Department's K9 is trained for explosives searches and patrol.

Mera Yaar Mera Dushman

The story is on Narcotics and their illegal smuggling and involvement of the staff of big industries, who are harassed by rising prices and low wages.The story opens with Zarina Wahab being forced into narcotics smuggling by her brother-in-law Sujit Kumar, due to her wheel chair ridden sister Beena Banerjee.

Miami Vice: The Game

Therefore, the likeness of the narcotics officers Crockett and Tubbs are based on that of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, respectively.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency

President George Bush said that Nigeria had made significant progress in counter narcotics and had effectively co-operated with the United States on drug-related and money laundering cases.

Nelson G. Gross

Gross served in 1969 as Coordinator on International Narcotics Matters in the Department of State and was sent by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to Uruguay.

Peter Greene

Greene often plays villains such as in Judgment Night, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Training Day (as a corrupt narcotics officer) and martial arts/crime film Fist of the Warrior (opposite Ho-Sung Pak, Roger Guenveur Smith and Sherilyn Fenn).

Police ranks of the United States

Lieutenants can supervise an entire watch shift of a police station or detective squad (Narcotics, Homicide, etc.) in larger police departments and entire precincts in smaller police departments.

Ramiro Martinez

Ramiro Martinez became a narcotics investigator, a Texas Ranger, and a Justice of the Peace in New Braunfels, Texas.

Richard Donner

It starred Mel Gibson as a widowed narcotics detective with a suicidal bent "who breaks every rule for the sheer joy of it."

Roberto Marcos García

Roberto Marcos García worked as a deputy editor for Testimonio for at least 13 years, and wrote about politics, drug-related killings, police reports, and the narcotics trade in the state of Veracruz.

Standing Royal Navy deployments

The deployment supports counter narcotics role and can provide humanitarian assistance where required; following the regular hurricanes and tropical storms.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Global Narcotics Affairs

The Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Narcotics Affairs is responsible for United States relations with the nations of the Western Hemisphere, including Canada and the nations of the Caribbean.

United States v. Neil Scott Kramer

The pair drove to the Comfort Inn in Willow Springs, Missouri, where Kramer "plied the victim with illegal narcotics and then engaged in sexual intercourse with her."

Wallace Groves

The new prime minister, Mr. Lynden Pindling, made new arrangements for payments and diversified into narcotics trafficking, ceding the island of Norman's Cay for use by Carlos Lehder.


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