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Aaron Huey: The Afghanistan Drug War
Aaron Huey is a guy who can take some seriously good photographs. Best known for his Walk Across America, Aaron has been all over the Middle East – Pakistan, Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan and others –...
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Swiss Initiative Creates Legal Heroin
Perception and reality are a funny thing. Swiss voters have officially legalized their country’s comprehensive heroin program. At the same time, the Swiss people voted at a 63% clip against the...
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Death of Dr. Dre’s Son Caused by Heroin, Morphine
Reporting exclusively earlier this month, People magazine revealed on its Web site the true cause of Andre Young Jr.’s death, the son of superstar producer and rapper, Dr. Dre. The 20-year-old Young...
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Gallery: Sexy Junkies
I wouldn’t call this the best way to start off a Friday, but reality is kind of like that. tFS tends to cover and discuss drugs on the lower spectrums of addiction and physical harm. We could start...
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Britons Smash $70m Heroin Stash
A raid by more than 700 troops, British and Afghan, seized a couple tons of heroin worth about $11 million, and smashed chemicals valued at nearly $60 million. Britain’s Defense Secretary John Hutton...
View Article48 Arrested in East L.A. Heroin Ring
A task force (Sheriff’s Department’s Narcotics Bureau) including the sheriff’s department and two federal agencies (DEA and ICE) raided 38 locations Tuesday morning which led to the arrest of 48 East...
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Heroin Overdoses Become Growing Epidemic
It’s tragic, but it happens on a daily bassis anywhere around the world — someone dies of a heroin overdose. With the family from Massapequa, New York the mother had a chance to get her daughter the...
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Flair’s Son Caught Up in Charlotte Smack-Down
Richard Fleihr, 21, son of WWE Hall of Famer, Ric Flair, was arrested Sunday when officers found heroin inside his car. Apparently Fleihr was setting up for his patented double-axe handled...
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Afghan Chief Gets Life in U.S. Prison
Check out the new scapegoat poster child for the U.S.’s war on drugs. Bashir Noorzai, 45, a once powerful Afghani Tribal leader, was ordered by an American judge to pay a fine of $25,000 and spend the...
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Weekend Roundup: Drug Related Arrests
34-year-old, Joshua Lee Colvin of Kansas City, MO, was arrested and charged with possession and intent to distribute, after he accepted a package from California containing fourteen pounds of...
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U.S. Fails to Slow Down Afghani Opium
You’d think that after invading a country known for it’s opium trade (90% of the world’s supply,) that the opium supply coming from that country would be severely crippled — especially with military...
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Canada to Conduct Research for Heroin Replacement
Free heroin is planned to be given to over 300 addicts in the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Montreal, as part of a three year project called Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication...
View ArticleBritish Woman Sentenced to Life in Laos Drug Court
The tendrils of US drug enforcement reach across borders, over oceans, and even into the legal affairs of foreign nations. When British national, Samantha Orabator was caught concealing a pound and a...
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Your Great-Grandma Was Hopped Up on Stuff
For those of us caught up in the day to day world of drug politics, it can be easy to forget just how new the concept of ‘illegal drugs’ really is. Pharmacy blog, Pill Talk, provided a big dose of...
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Teddy Bears Resort to Life of Crime
DEA agents and New York City’s finest were shocked last weekend to find yet another segment of society corrupted by the War on Drugs — Teddy Bears. In a raid on a Bronx safehouse, police and federal...
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