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Example sentences for: narcotics

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Who can say what the federal government had up its sleeve when it softened the term narcotics and began calling heroin and cocaine controlled substances .
Today the use of narcotics is commonly referred to as doing drugs , a phrase that seems to imply a harmless activity such as doing the samba .
The WP fronts an interesting story on a joint U.S.-Chinese secret electronic surveillance system established in 1995 along the China-Burma border to eavesdrop on narcotics traffickers.
"It was the first reported disappearance of U.S. military in Colombia," though the Pentagon and Colombian authorities have been cooperating for years--the WP should say how many--to battle narcotics.
The U.S.government can do its part if the international community decides on a joint effort to restore the rule of law and contain rampant crime and narcotics trafficking in this crossroads of Central Asia.