Many drug-related media stories focus prominently on large-scale drug trafficking or possession with intent to distribute and involve drugs like heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana. The central actors in such tales are often sophisticated and connected to extensive drug-manufacturing operations. Conspiracy and an organized criminal element is routinely suggested or featured, such as an international […]

Federal drug enforcement officials report that large and sophisticated drug cartel operations south of the border, in Mexico, have geared up substantially to supplant and take over major sale outlets across the United States for the drug methamphetamine. As many readers are probably aware, meth has long been on the radar of DEA agents and […]

When it came to the work that a chemist at a state laboratory in Boston was doing, supervisors should have been looking at far more than the eye-popping quantity routinely churned out. Instead, they might reasonably have questioned co-workers. Although the chemist’s job was centrally to test and confirm the identity of drugs that would […]