Exam 4: Drug Trafficking

What is the definition of the following word: -Cocaine.

Why have cocaine production and sales been so successful within South America?

Cocaine can be used for relief of chronic pain, post-surgical pain, and myocardial infarction.

Drugs can even be ordered from websites.

What is the definition of the following word: -Heroin

Which country is NOT part of The Golden Triangle?

What drug is produced in the Middle East, primarily in Syria and is reported to be responsible for the funding of weapons used in the Syrian Conflict?

Heroin can be introduced to the body through...

Stemming the flow of cocaine has been difficult for what reason?

Traffickers prefer to work with methamphetamine because of its low labor and transport costs.

The governments of Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru operate in a fragile environment that make the cocaine problem problematic.

In the effort to stop international trafficking, the traffickers are loosing.

Methamphetamine can be…

Infiltrating organized crime that traffic cocaine is very easy for law enforcement.

South American cocaine is grown in remote and mountainous regions of the northwest quarter of the continent. This terrain makes it difficult to get to the growers.

It is difficult for countries such as Burma, Thailand, and Laos to address the problems of opium and heroin trafficking on their own.

Coca in Peru and Bolivia has long been used by indigenous peoples and has cultural, religious, social, medicinal, and economic importance.

Hashish is the product made from the coca plant that involves isolating the plant's resin.

The following drug is generally encountered as an odorless, white, bitter-tasting powder that may also be found as pills, capsules, and crystals.

Which is a reason why amphetamine-type stimulants have found such a receptive market in areas that do not have a history of recreational drug abuse?