{"id":2784,"date":"2009-07-19T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:36:24","slug":"major-crackdown-on-internet-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/major-crackdown-on-internet-drug-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Crackdown  On Internet Drug Traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana;\">Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major crackdown in Internet drug traffickers Thursday, disclosing that 115 dealers of the \u2018date rape\u2019 drug GHB had been arrested\u00a0 in 84 cities in the United States and Canada. The DEA has documented 72 deaths from the drug and its derivatives, which are sold over the internet to teenagers and young adults by dealers who operate\u00a0 their own Web sites. The drugs are delivered by mail.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>At a news conference authorities announced that as part of the probe, they had conducted enforcement operations in over 80 U.S. cities with drug seizures that could have yield more than 25 million doses of GHB and its derivatives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: www.washingtonpost.com, Sept 2002<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major crackdown in Internet drug traffickers Thursday, disclosing that 115 dealers of the \u2018date rape\u2019 drug GHB had been arrested\u00a0 in 84 cities in the United States and Canada. The DEA has documented 72 deaths from the drug and its derivatives, which are sold over the internet to teenagers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-sector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}