Dubbed as the "Sultan" for his dominance in the illicit trade, Hafeez’s empire stretched from the opium fields of Afghanistan ...

On June 6, 2025, Hafeez was sentenced to 16 years in a New York prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges. The case capped a years-long legal saga that exposed how Hafeez, once a ...

In reality, Hafeez was himself what US officials described as "one of the world's most prolific drug traffickers". From his ...

OVER 80 kilograms of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) and other confiscated illegal drugs worth approximately P560.4 million, were destroyed by police auth ...

Bathinda: Twelve years after he was arrested in a multi-crore drug racket, Arjuna Award-winning wrestler and former Punjab Police DSP Jagdish Bhola fi.

In 1887, a German chemist synthesized the chemical compound ephedrine, found in the ephedra plant. By 1893, Japanese scientists were developing methamphetamine. During World War II, German ...

"The presence of an active pharmaceutical industry significantly increases the likelihood of illegal methamphetamine labs, primarily due to the availability of precursor chemicals like ephedrine and ...

The officers who went to the Flat Bush, Auckland home of Po-Chen Chien also found 159g of methamphetamine, with a street value of more than $70,000. When they searched three other locations ...

Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States Methamphetamine (meth) is a potent and addictive central nervous system stimulant with increasing use. Stroke is one ...

Delhi Police acted against an Afghanistan meth cartel smuggling meth disguised ... and Iran with separate laboratories for extracting ephedrine from ephedra plants and for making methamphetamine ...

As drug historian David Herzberg notes in a Washington Post review of Quinones' book, "Quinones has no laboratory or epidemiological evidence that P2P meth is different from ephedrine-produced ...

50 kg of solutions containing ephedrine, 4.5 kg of meth, 556 litres of solutions containing meth, 10 kg of ANPP (a direct precursor to fentanyl), 2.95 kg of NPP (an anabolic steroid), 660 grams of ...