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  1. Army says 52 #drug #smugglers #killed in North in past 10 months✊️
    "MajGen Sathit Waiyanont said te clashes were among 499 successful attempts to block drug smugglers, w a total of 482 #suspects #arrested.. apart fr te arrests, soldiers seized 7.96 tonnes of crystal #meth, 297 million #speed pills, 20 kilogrammes of #heroin, 1.33 tonnes of #ketamine & 378kg of #opium.. Pha Muang Task Force is a specialised unit of te Royal #Thai #Army"
    #narcotics #zerotolerance #ganbatte
    bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener

  2. CW: healthcare

    Copay Assistance Is Meant To Defray Patient Drug Costs. Some Insurers Keep It Instead.

    Drugmakers provide financial assistance to help patients afford increasingly expensive medications. But some insurers do not count those payments toward a plan...

    #copayments #drug-costs #drugs #graphics #health-industry #healthcare-costs #insurance #midwest-bureau #multimedia #out-of-pocket-costs #southern-bureau
    kffhealthnews.org/health-care-

  3. #OperationPandora nets three #Swedes tied to darknet #narcotics
    "Lind, arrested at a rented house in Bangkok, had lived in #Thailand for ~13 years.. Swedish & Australian authorities requested Thailand's assistance in locating te suspects, believed to be key figures behind #darknet platforms. Te sites controlled >80% of te #European #online #drug market & facilitated shipments to #Australia. EU police earlier seized >1000kg of drugs linked to te network"
    #deport #blacklist
    bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener

  4. #RxInspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides #Drug Info the #FDA Won’t
    Even though #genericdrugs make up 90% of #prescriptions dispensed in the #US, the FDA only provides piecemeal information about them. It’s scattered across different websites with no easy way to link #drugs to their manufacturers, factory locations and regulatory track records. Over many months, journalists connected that data.
    propublica.org/article/rx-insp

  5. Already… #Trump has granted #clemency to at least 8 individuals #convicted on fed #drug charges. Some, incl’g Hoover, have extensive #criminal records involving #violence & #gun charges.
    “There's a lot of mixed messages &…which creates… #chaos & #uncertainty,”said Jeffrey Singer, a drug policy analyst at Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank. "On the one hand you're threatening…tougher penalties on people who deal in #drugs, while on the other hand you're releasing #DrugDealers from prisons."

  6. It's good hear that some people turn their lives around to help others and be recognized for it.

    Former #drug addict from #Romford awarded BEM for raising awareness to over a million children.

    romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/248

  7. @StefLaw

    (4/n)

    ...boost to #OrganizedCrime in the #RussianFederation and its vassal states:

    "A recent #Russian news report says the registered [!] #CrimeRate in the country has doubled in the past 10 years. Crime is so much a part of life in today's #Russia that the television channels carry special daily bulletins devoted to gangland #killings, #drug seizures and #robberies, perhaps...."