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Mauger, a child of what he describes as “a screwed-up family,” grew up in Allston. He remembers “a lot of friends dying of heroin overdoses, having kids when they’re, like, 15. I sat there looking, and thinking, ‘This is ridiculous...
...driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
...agent claims she was soon approached by colleagues who tapped their noses and asked if she "partied." Apparently the Brooks dealers were just as indiscreet in their activities outside the office. A DEA affidavit cites one instance in which a Brooks employee sent a customer a free sample of heroin via the company's messenger service...
JAILED. ROBERT CHAMBERS, 38, a.k.a. the Preppie Killer, whose 1986 killing of teenager Jennifer Levin in Manhattan's Central Park--accidentally, he contended, during "rough sex"--triggered national outrage; for possession of heroin; two years after serving the full 15 years in prison for Levin's murder; in New York City...
...Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and lite Afghan counter-drug units are poised to stage an aggressive offensive this fall against drug traffickers who are reaping enormous profits in Afghanistan, the world's No. 1 source of opium and heroin. Although Afghanistan's poppy farmers produce about 87% of the world's opium, according to a recent United Nations report, the Bush Administration has been unwilling to deploy the U.S. military to eradicate poppy fields for fear of antagonizing the hundreds of thousands of impoverished villagers whose livelihoods depend on the crop...