Tag: cartels
Casualties of Addiction: Drug Lord El Chapo Goes on Trial
It’s not just $14 billion dollars that hangs in the balance of drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s trial. Along with money and drugs, what the...
OxyContin sets ‘em up, and the cartels knock ‘em down
Are doctors who overprescribe opioid painkillers and the Mexican drug cartels unwitting partners in a vicious cycle of addiction? “Sometime ago, there was a shift...