Navigate
Home
Valium
History of Valium
Valium Side Effects
Valium Withdrawal
Valium Overdose
Valium Pictures
Valium Effects
Drug Rehabilitation
Site Map

Drug Addiction Info
Cocaine Addiction
Crack Addiction
Ecstasy Addiction
Heroin Addiction
Marijuana Addiction
Oxycontin Addiction

Drug Facts

Valium is an antianxiety agent ( benzodiazepines. ) Used primarily for short-term relief of mild to moderate anxiety.

The habit-forming potential of Valium is high. It is possible to become dependent on Valium in only two weeks.

Valium in mainly available in tablets. The 2mg tablet is white, the 5mg tablet is yellow, and the 10mg tablet is blue.

Everyone's body is different but as little as half a pill of Valium when combined with depressants can lower your respiratory system enough to kill you. Taken in high doses Valium alone can kill you


Drug News
 The shackles of shabu.
The shackles of shabu. ...
 Florida man held on drug sale charges
A 28-year-old Florida man has pleaded not guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with ...
 The More We Get, The More We Need: How To Prevent Morphine 'Tolerance'
Tolerance to the pain-relieving effects of morphine - which builds rapidly with prolonged use - ...
 Dickinson,North Dakota couple waive their right to a trial.
Dickinson,North Dakota couple waive their right to a trial. A Dickinson,North Dakota couple waived their ...
 San Jose,California man held for allegedly making, dealing methamphetamine.
San Jose,California man held for allegedly making, dealing methamphetamine. A San Jose,California man today faces six ...
 Probation officer accused of selling meth.
Probation officer accused of selling meth. TACOMA,Washington -- A state probation officer accused of ...
 The crack shack bust.
Two more crack shacks were busted on May 4, this time on the 2200 and ...
 Pair nabbed in stolen truck with drugs.
Pair nabbed in stolen truck with drugs. A 23-year-old man and an 18-year-old ...
 Meth mother in Oregon.
DINT busts woman with meth, 6-year-old. WINSTON,Oregon, Police arrested a Winston woman ...
 Man who fled Meth charges kept in Prison.
Man Who Fled Meth Charges Kept In Prison. Bondsman Finds Bail Jumper In Belize. ...
 DUI charges in Idaho.
Manslaughter suspect jailed on DUI charge. SANDPOINT,Idaho -- An Oldtown,Idaho man awaiting trial ...
 Africia becoming Drug Hub.
DEA Chief Warns Africa Becoming Drug Hub DEA administrator Karen Tandy, left, listens with ...


Print this article

Send this article to a friend

Add to Favorites




Africia becoming Drug Hub.




DEA Chief Warns Africa Becoming Drug Hub


DEA administrator Karen Tandy, left, listens with Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba to her countries national anthem during the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Madrid, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Africa is threatening to become the world's newest drug nightmare as Colombian narcotics barons scheme to turn the continent into a hub for shipping cocaine to Europe, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday.





MADRID, Spain - Colombian drug barons and criminal gangs are trying to turn Africa into a hub for shipping cocaine to Europe, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

In an exclusive interview, DEA administrator Karen Tandy said drug interdiction officials battling the $300 billion-a-year global drug trade also worry about Africa's new role as a waystation for Europe-bound heroin from southwestern Asia, particularly Afghanistan.

"Africa will be, in terms of a drug hot bed, one of our worst nightmares if we don't get ahead of that curve now," Tandy said during a major international anti-drug conference hosted by the DEA and Spain's government.

Lured by Europe's high demand for cocaine, the strength of the euro and lax law enforcement in poor African countries, Latin American drug gangs are "setting up shop" in Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast in the continent's west and Kenya in the east, Tandy and other DEA officials said in the interview.

Africa "has emerged as a drug hot spot, a hub, in just the last several years," she said.

In the case of cocaine, the drug is shipped ready-to-consume by boat to Africa and sent on to Europe by land, plane or ship, said Russell Benson, the DEA regional director for Europe and Africa.

Traffickers are also using traditional smuggling routes, with Spain as the main gateway for cocaine entering Europe. But Africa has become a tempting additional conduit because of its spotty law enforcement and porous borders.

"They are looking for a vulnerable spot," Benson said. "It is the path of least resistance."

Europe's appetite for cocaine is strong and growing - Tandy said it is similar to the cocaine craze of the 1980s in the United States.

And users on the continent pay in euros, the European Union currency that has risen sharply against the dollar in recent years, making Europe's users an irresistible target for Colombian cartels, the DEA officials said.

The cash flow has traffickers smuggling euro notes back home in bulk - millions of bills at a time, the officials said.

In Colombia, traffickers sell euros to currency traders at a rate slightly below the market rate. They lose a bit in the transaction but don't care because they obtain clean Colombian pesos.

Euros from drug profits then trickle their way into the economy. There are so many euros floating around Latin America that of the $2.3 billion worth of euros that entered the United States last year, 90 percent came from Latin America, Tandy said.

Tandy was in Madrid to attend the International Drug Enforcement Conference, a 25-year-old forum that the DEA holds each year to meet with colleagues from around the world to discuss the war on illegal drugs.

This is the first time the conference has been held outside the Americas, and Spain was chosen because of its role as the main gateway for drugs entering Europe and what DEA officials call its tenacious effort to fight the onslaught.

Spain leads Europe for cocaine seizures and is fourth in the world, and it accounts for half of all hashish seizures, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.

It and other countries face increasingly ingenious traffickers. Among current techniques, gangs drop loads of cocaine fitted with radio-transmitting buoys into the Atlantic and have boats pick up the drugs, said Maria Marcos Salvador, head of Spain's Organized Crime Intelligence Center.

Link To Us
Show your support. Link to us!
Copyright © 2008 Vicodin Addiction
End of LiveChat code -->