War on Drugs

The Drug Enforcement Administration has concluded Operation CYBERx, a multi-faceted Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation targeting major alleged pharmaceutical drug traffickers operating solely in the United States.

William Eliot Hurwitz, 59, of McLean, Virginia, was sentenced in the United States District Court in Alexandria to 25 years imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $1 million for his conviction on illegal drug distribution charges.

On a South Texas highway local police and border agents are using a hand-held sniffer developed at Sandia National Laboratories to help stem the flow of illegal drugs northward into the U.S.

A large-scale heroin and cocaine trafficking organization that typically shipped multi-kilogram amounts of Colombian heroin hidden in car batteries from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States is out of business.

More and more jurisdictions are establishing drug courts to deal with first and second offenders rather than the usual criminal justice system, but their motivation has probably been less due to an increase social awareness than it has to pure financial necessity.

The federal Drug Abuse Prevention and Control laws.

Drug Enforcement Agency arrests and drugs seizures by year, since 1986.

Photographs of commonly abused drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Penalties for various quantities of illegal drugs in the United States.

The White House annual strategy report to Congress required by the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998.

The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences.