Category Archives: Drug Crime
Introducing The DEA’s Drug Emoji Decoder
Drug culture is constantly changing, from the drugs that are readily available to their routes of administration and the demographics of their users. One thing that has remained consistent at least since the enactment of the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970, though, is that the efforts of elders and law enforcement to understand… Read More »
Law Enforcement Intercepts Shipment Of Tianeptine In The Philadelphia Area
The difference between a therapeutic medication and a dangerous street drug is less clear than your drug education class in elementary school made it seem. Schedule I controlled substances are the only ones that are always illegal; the controlled substances in all the other categories have at least a limited use officially accepted by… Read More »
Kratom Is Still Legal In Pennsylvania After Fatal Overdoses
If you buy something at a cannabis dispensary or a vape shop, you can safely assume that it is not a drug, but it isn’t not a drug. The likes of cannabis, psilocybin, CBD, kratom, tianeptine, and so many other intoxicating substances, including tobacco, for that matter, fit the definition of drugs according to… Read More »
Jury Returns Guilty Verdict For Williamsport Woman Accused Of Selling Cocaine To Informants
It is difficult to look on the bright side when you are being charged with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, but you can at least be reassured that it is not entirely your fault. There are at least some parts of the operation in which you had no role. Your defense strategy might… Read More »
Another Veterinary Tranquilizer Makes An Appearance In Pennsylvania’s Drug Supply
Yes, fentanyl causes more fatal overdoses than any other drug, and it is plenty scary, but by some measures, it is not the worst drug out there. Some other synthetic opioids, especially those that have the word “nitazene” as a component of their names, are even stronger than fentanyl. Naloxone is a game changer,… Read More »
Finally, Some Encouraging News About The Fentanyl Epidemic
If you are young enough that you have only ever voted in elections where Trump was on the ballot, then you do not remember a time before fentanyl became the scariest thing anyone could imagine. If you watch news reports from the 80s where people panicked about crack cocaine, or even about HIV, it… Read More »
Philadelphia Drug Trafficking Investigation Leads To Arrest Of Seven Defendants
A steady stream of opioids has flooded Pennsylvania for the last two decades, each scarier than the last. The policy changes that have done the most to prevent opioid overdose deaths are the widespread availability of naloxone, which reverses the effects of opioid overdose, and Good Samaritan laws, which protect you from criminal prosecution… Read More »
How Much Of Your Property Can Police Search At A Traffic Stop?
If you are nervous about air travel, hiking, zip lining, or canoeing, people who are experienced in these activities will remind you that driving a car, which you do every day, is more dangerous. Things can go from normal to disastrous in an instant when you are driving, and not just if you get… Read More »
Is DOI A Psychiatric Wonder Drug Or Just Another Illegal High?
If you can get past the vitriol and the conspiracy theories, it can be quite interesting to ask people their opinions on drugs. Which recreational drugs are harmful, which ones are harmless fun, and which ones are beneficial to your health? These days, almost everyone will tell you that fentanyl and other opioids are… Read More »
Pennsylvania Couple Faces Charges For Obtaining Thousands Of Gabapentin Pills Through Fraud
In the days of the pill mills, you could walk out of a pain clinic in Florida with hundreds of oxycodone pills and bring them back to Pennsylvania for resale. Today, if anyone had that many oxycodone pills in the same place at the same time, anywhere except locked up in a pharmacy, it… Read More »
