The United States, the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs, is also currently experiencing a deadly epidemic of opioid use.
The United States, the world’s largest consumer of illegal drugs, is also currently experiencing a deadly epidemic of opioid use.
“This is one of the largest drug seizures in United States history,” tweeted William McSwain, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Philadelphia. The drugs were found in seven containers aboard the MSC Gayane cargo ship, which was leaving for Europe after having previously called in Chile, Panama and the Bahamas, according to local media.
In a 2018 report, the US Drug Enforcement Agency said that cocaine use in the US had continued to increase in 2016 and 2017, and that 93 percent of the drug distributed in the country comes from Colombia, while four percent is from Peru.
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