ILLICIT DRUG MANUFACTURERS TARGET PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMICALS TO MANUFACTURE ILLEGAL NARCOTICS
October 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
MEDICINE is meant to treat disease, kill viruses and save lives, but the chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals can sometimes do more harm than good - when they are used to make illicit narcotics and psychotropic drugs.
Illicit drug makers have long targeted the global pharmaceutical industry to source their products' ingredients to help manufacture illicit street drugs including cocaine, heroin, ecstacy and methamphetamines.
This diversion of chemicals into illicit drug manufacturing has continued for decades and has sparked various ...
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