X-Nico

unusual facts about cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript



1984 Rose Bowl

On June 27, 1986, Don Rogers died of a cocaine overdose at his mother's home, only eight days after Maryland basketball player Len Bias died also of a cocaine overdose.

Agwa de Bolivia

The coca leaf content of the drink, like that in Coca-Cola, has the cocaine alkaloids removed during production, and does not contain the drug.

Ben Powers

Powers was also a regular on the CBS-TV hit detective drama show Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1984-85, until the star, Stacy Keach, was arrested in London for cocaine smuggling and the show was canceled while Keach did time in England.

Berkant Göktan

On 21 October 2008, he was released from his contract after being positively tested for Cocaine consumption.

Christopher Bowman

In Inside Edge by Christine Brennan, Bowman admitted to having had a $950 a day cocaine habit during his eligible career, and that he had checked into the Betty Ford Center before the 1988 Olympic Games.

CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US

Then on December 18, 1997, stories in the Washington Post and New York Times appeared, stating that Hitz had found "no direct or indirect" links between the CIA and cocaine traffickers, despite the reporters never seeing the report.

Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography

Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography (ISBN 0312286244) is a 2002 non-fiction book about the history of cocaine, written by Dominic Streatfeild and published by Diane Publishing Company.

Collin Hegna

Cocaine Unicorn have opened shows for bands such as The Warlocks, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Out Crowd at various times throughout their career.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Don Murdoch

In the offseason in 1977 after his first season, Murdoch was caught by customs agents in Toronto with 4.5 grams of cocaine stashed in his socks.

Eaton Green

Fleeing Jamaica on murder charges, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and eventually settled in Brixton in February 1991 where he began dealing crack and cocaine.

F14

the ICD-10 code for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine

Fair Trials International

Ghana Girls: In July 2007, two 16-year-old girls, Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, were arrested for possession of 6 kilograms of cocaine at Accra airport in Ghana.

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Soon after the urine screenings began, the case manager in the hospital's obstetrics department heard that police in Greenville, South Carolina, were arresting pregnant women who used cocaine for child abuse.

Francesco Mazzaferro

In March 1994 the Italian police seized 5497 kilogrammes of cocaine (a European record at the time) in Borgaro Torinese near Turin (the investigation was code-named Operation Cartagine).

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.

Gary Stephen Krist

He was arrested in Point Clear, Alabama, for conspiracy to bring cocaine and illegal aliens into the United States.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Health in Bolivia

Addiction to coca paste, a cocaine by-product in the form of a cigarette called 'pitillo', was spreading rapidly among city youths.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

I've Always Been Crazy

"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand" is Jennings' personal statement on the state of the outlaw movement, written after having been detained by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1977 for possession of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute.

Joaquín Andújar

On top of that, on February 28, 1986, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth handed down season-long suspensions to Andújar, who had also dealt drugs to Lonnie Smith in 1982, and six other players who had admitted to cocaine abuse during the Pittsburgh drug trials.

John M. Dunn

He established underworld connections including Joseph P. Ryan, who had sponsored him for union membership, and Meyer Lansky who had been in discussions regarding the use of the longshoremen's union to assist in the importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States.

Kept and Dreamless

Shown at AFI's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 24, 2005, this post-modern film explores mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a 10-year old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother.

Kevin Stevens

Not only did he rarely see the ice during this season, but after a game against the St. Louis Blues, he was caught in an East St. Louis, Illinois motel with a prostitute and crack cocaine.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels was fired from the cabinet by President John Kufuor in 2008, allegedly due to his involvement in the stealing of forty-two parcels of cocaine which were confiscated by the police.

Lancashire Evening Post

In late May 2010, Lancashire Evening Post ran an article about video games which drew some controversy for its comparison between video game addiction, underage drinking and drug use.

Lies and Lullabies

Lies and Lullabies is an award-winning Rod Hardy-directed 1993 ABC television movie about a pregnant cocaine addict, played by Susan Dey.

Marine Corps Brig, Quantico

Over the years, there were some prominent inmates at the Brig, including John Hinckley, Jr., a would-be presidential assassin, Clayton J. Lonetree, the Marine Security Guard who provided classified information to the KGB while stationed at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow from 1984 to 1986, and Rayful Edmond, largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C., area.

Mario Villanueva

filed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges including conspiracy to traffick and transport cocaine.

Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre

In an operation in June, 2007, 840 kilograms of cocaine were seized aboard a Brazilian flagged vessel which was intercepted by the French Navy, acting on UK intelligence.

Matteo Messina Denaro

They are involved in cocaine trafficking in agreement with ‘Ndrangheta clans from Platì, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica and Siderno, as well as the Mafia family of Mariano Agate.

Memo from Turner

Martin Scorsese uses the track in a scene from Goodfellas where Ray Liotta's character Henry emerges from the house during the daylight on a cocaine binge.

Michael DeBatt

Like his friend Nicholas Mormando, DeBatt became addicted to crack cocaine sometime during the Crack epidemic in 1984.

Mickey Munday

In 1980, Max Mermelstein, an American associate of the Medellin Cartel, was introduced to Jon Roberts, who was in need of a direct supplier of cocaine into the United States.

Much 'I Do' About Nothing

Georgina Sparks is supposed to be a part of the equestrian circuit, mentions having lasted longer than Lohan in rehab, and sold her show horse for money to buy cocaine.

Nicholas Baker

Nicholas John Baker, British citizen who was convicted of smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Japan

Salvatore Miceli

He was involved in a cocaine trafficking network with Mariano Agate, the Mafia boss of Mazara del Vallo and Calabrian clans of Marando, Trimboli and Barbaro from Platì.

In the beginning of the 1990s, after a failed cocaine transport, Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca condemned Miceli to death.

Self-administration

In a prominent model of self-administration developed by George Koob, rats are allowed to self-administer cocaine for either 1 hour each day (short access) or 6 hours each day (long access).

Stalking Pete Doherty

Carlish was educated at King David Primary School and then King Edward's School, Birmingham where he was a keen amateur dramatist - writing and performing a 'hip-hop opera' in which Carlish 'rapped' about a mystical 'Rock of Crack' (Cocaine) and where at least one contemporary remembers him as energetically outspoken even at a tender age.

Steadroy Benjamin

A lawyer by training, Benjamin represented Ivor Bird, the brother of Prime Minister Lester Bird, following his arrest for the attempted smuggling of cocaine.

Sumas y restas

Gerardo has many contacts in the rural region of Frontino, Antioquia were the authorities turn a blind eye to his rustic laboratory to process cocaine.

Susan Cowsill

The album, tentatively titled Cocaine Drain, was produced by Chuck Plotkin, but was not released until 2008.

The Hobos

The album featured one CD of original material and a second disk that was compiled from many different cover versions, including J. J. Cale’s "Cocaine", Bob Marley’s "I Shot the Sheriff" and Simon and Garfunkel’s "Cecilia".

The Stars' Tennis Balls

Next, Maddstone engineers events that lead Rufus Cade - who has by now had several failed marriages and is a regular drugs user - to unwittingly sell sherbet to a group of Turkish dealers expecting a large quantity of cocaine.

Travis Henry

On September 30, 2008, Henry was arrested by the DEA after allegedly being involved in a multi-kilogram cocaine transaction that occurred in Centennial, Colorado.

Vincent Kenis

Vincent had to replace Berry Sakharof (of Minimal Compact) while the tour of their successful album, Deadly Weapons (that was out by Crammed), after Berry was arrest for 8 months in Israel in charge of smuggling cocaine.


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