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Search results for "methamphetamine" ...
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Off Track: Clandestine Racing in California
This story delved into an unknown world of illegal and clandestine horse racing happening on private tracks throughout the state of California. The straight-track races occur on properties throughout the state. KCRA uncovered a world where drug deals, prostitution, illegal gambling and animal cruelty are the norm. KCRA got the point of view of investigators and a veterinary scientist who found that horses were being dosed with mixtures of cocaine and methamphetamine. Added to this was the fact that few local law enforcement know it's happening and state investigators don't have the resources to stop the racing from happening.
Tags: Horse racing; drug deals; prostituion; gambling; animal abuse; veterinary science; cocaine; methamphetamine
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The Terrorism Trade-Off
"The Seattle P-I chronicled how the Bush Administration is paying for its domestic War on Terror by gutting the FBI's traditional crime-fighting capabilities."
Tags: FBI; terrorism; Bush; methamphetamine; meth; Native Americans; tribes; criminals; rogue cops; civil rights;
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Question of Justice
A senior probation and parole officer obtained for her son a sentence of five and a half months of drug rehabilitation instead of the 20-years-to-life sentence standard for the Class A Felony he committed.
Tags: Probation; parole; meth; methamphetamine; stolen weapons; Class A Felony; parole officers
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Meth Alert
This investigation examined the enforcement and effectiveness of a new Indiana law meant to restrict the purchase of materials used to make methamphetamine. It tested stores' compliance with the law and communication between stores to track abusers, as well as maintenance of ephedrine logs.
Tags: meth; methamphetamines; ephedrine; pseudoephedrine; drugs; meth labs; law enforcement; Indiana
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The Perfect Drug
This investigation is an in-depth look at the role methamphetamine plays in Phoenix, Arizona. The reporters explored and dispelled various myths about the drug. They also traced the community's problem to a Mexican supply, and found that the drug even had a presence in elementary school.
Tags: drugs; addiction; rehabilitation; DEA; meth; meth labs; treatment centers; pseudoephedrin
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The politics of meth
The Oregonian found that Mexico has allowed drug companies to import twice as much pseudoephedrine as they need to produce cold medicines, and that the surplus is feeding a massive increase in methamphetamine production by drug cartels. Mexican cartels remain the dominant source of meth in the United States, and U.S. officials have failed to curb the cartels' access to pseudoephedrine. The supply of meth is now at a near-record high, addiction is unabated and the purity of meth has doubled since 1999, reaching its highest level in a decade.
Tags: CAR; methamphetamine; pseudoephedrine; cold medicines; narcotrafficking; drug companies; drug trade; drug addiction; international trade; Mexico
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Generation Meth
The six-day series explores the topic of female meth addicts. The series looks at treatment, what happens to addicts' children, and Utah attitudes that prohibit proper funding for this problem
Tags: methamphetamine; meth; meth labs; meth users; drugs; addiction; substance abuse; female meth addicts; Salt Lake City; Utah
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Guess Who's Not Going to Jail
The Austin Chronicle uncovers shocking disparity in how whites and blacks are treated and prosecuted for their crimes in Williamson County. This observation is reinforced by the cases of drug dealers: two white men found with more than 200 grams of meth were fined and sent to prison for less than 6 months, while several blacks in possession of less than 45 grams of crack were sentenced to 15 months to life.
Tags: jail; prison; white; black; race; racism; plea bargain; crime; sentence; FOIA; drug; methamphetamine; crack; NAACP
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The Matthew Shepard Story
This ABC 20/20 documentary is a re-examination of the circumstances surrounding the 1998 murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The investigation revealed that the motive behind this high-profile homicide was more complicated than the anti-gay motive originally imagined. For example, the investigation found methamphetamine use by the perpetrator, Aaron McKinney, played a role in the crime, sources who say the killer and victim were not strangers, and sources who claim that Aaron McKinney was bisexual and not uncomfortable around gay people.
Tags: Matthew Shepard; Laramie; Wyoming; anti-gay hate crime; methamphetamine; Aaron McKinney
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Generation Meth
"Generation Meth tackled the skyrocketing use of meth among Utah women and exposed the state's inadequate response to this epidemic...The series examined how meth addiction burdens Utah's courts, prisons, police agencies and child welfare systems.
Tags: drug use; narcotics; methamphetamine; child welfare; child abuse; health and human services