Drugs

Former beauty queen faces lengthy prison time for helping her husband run Mexico’s violent Sinaloa drug cartel.

Attorney general accused CVS’s pharmacy chain, one of the US’s largest, of flooding the state with prescription opioids.

The population of Michoacan state in Mexico is trapped in a cartel war between the government and criminal groups.

A May 6 police operation in Rio’s Jacarezinho favela resulted in the death of 28 people.

Social media in India and Thailand are filled with ads where package tours to the US and Russia come with COVID jabs.

Most banks refuse to service the industry because of federal rules, leaving marijuana sellers to deal with bags of cash.

Brazil’s police said crackdown on drug trafficking was justified but residents denounce ‘execution-style killings’.

Modi’s government hasn’t placed an order bigger than 110 million doses from biggest local maker of COVID vaccine.

US loosens restrictions on buprenorphine, a drug that helps with opioid cravings, amid record overdose deaths.

Ban announced after Saudi foiled attempt at Jeddah port to smuggle 5.3 million Captagon pills in pomegranate crates.

Located in the state of Michoacan, the town has been consumed by a bloody turf war between rival cartels.

The arrests are in connection with the disappearances of an unspecified number of people in Tamaulipas, the Navy said.

Eight Venezuelan soldiers have died during operations, which have caused about 5,000 people to flee across the border.

US state government estimates that the change could net an additional $350m in annual tax revenues and create more jobs.