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Baby Boomer Drug Addiction
6:00 am
Tue April 2, 2013

Have You Talked To Your Parents About Drugs? The Startling Rise Of Baby Boomer Drug Abuse

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More baby boomers are seeking treatment for addiction to prescription drugs.
Credit Jim Hall, epidemiologist / Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities at Nova Southeastern University
While emergency room visits related to cocaine use are down among other groups, these visits are up among baby boomers.
Credit Jim Hall, epidemiologist / Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities at Nova Southeastern University
Treatment for addiction to sedatives such as Ambien has tripled since 2001.
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Baby boomers have become addicted to drugs at an alarming rate. 

The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health,  released in 2012, found illicit drug use among people between the ages of 55 and 59 had increased more than any other group.

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Performance-enhancing drugs
6:00 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

South Florida May Be Source Of Banned Drugs In Major League Baseball

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A pipeline for banned drugs may start in South Florida.
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South Florida may be a source for banned performance-enhancing drugs making their way into major league baseball.

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Pill Mills
4:30 pm
Wed December 26, 2012

Pill Mills Migrate North To Georgia

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that three of every four overdose deaths in 2008 involved prescription painkillers.
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Florida's war on so-called "pill mill" pain clinics  appears to be pushing the problem into Georgia.

The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2010, there were just 10 pain clinics in the state of Georgia. Today, there are more than 125 clinics  and the state's per capita prescriptions of oxycodone has tripled in the last decade.

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Federal Investigation
8:21 am
Mon December 17, 2012

Bal Harbour Chief Suspended As Cash-Cow 'Task Force' Comes Under Federal Scrutiny

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INVESTIGATION: Bal Harbour police allegedly traveled the country to seize drug money unrelated to local cases.
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By Rick Stone

Bal Harbour Police Chief Thomas Hunker remains suspended with pay today in connection with his department's far-ranging anti-drug operations that yielded no prosecutions but kept his officers flush with ready cash.

Hunker is accused of professional misconduct in a Justice Department review of the department project that sent Bal Harbour officers all over the country to pose as money launderers for drug gangs. The department operated under rules that allowed it to keep up to 80 percent of the cash after turning the rest over to the Justice department.

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Drug Money
11:37 am
Wed November 21, 2012

How The Government Set Up A Fake Bank To Launder Latin American Drug Money

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Skip Latson marks the fake opening of RHM Trust Bank.
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A fake bank needs real business cards
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Originally published on Tue November 27, 2012 1:18 pm

In the early 1990s, Colombian drug cartels had a problem: They had more money than they knew what to do with.

"They were having a very difficult time with just the logistics of laundering millions and millions and millions of dollars every week," says Skip Latson, who worked for the DEA at the time.

So Latson and Bill Bruton, who was a special agent with the IRS, hatched a plan: They'd create a fake, offshore bank catering to the needs of the drug cartel.

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