drug ring
Illegal trafficking network
A drug ring is an organized criminal network that manufactures, transports, or distributes illegal drugs.
The term ring suggests a connected group operating covertly, often with hierarchy and division of labor: Police dismantled a drug ring that had been smuggling cocaine across the border.
Drug rings range from local operations to international cartels.
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- kingpinCriminal organization's leader
- organized crimeStructured illegal enterprise
bust · cocaine · heroin · dealer · operation · front company · money laundering · syndicate · undercover · informant · stash · safe house · territory · gang · laundering · shipment · law enforcement · arrest
- criminal groupsgang, mafia, cartel, mob, syndicate
- Traffickingtrafficking, trafficker, smuggling, human trafficking, sex trafficking
- drugsibuprofen, marijuana, aspirin, meth, cocaine
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
drug ringpharmacy
Medicinal dispensary
drugstore · pharmaceutical company · dispensary · apothecary · hospital pharmacy
drug ringDEA
Federal narcotics agency
narcotics unit · drug task force · FBI · police department · Interpol
drug ringrehab clinic
Facility for addiction recovery
Narcotics Anonymous · substance abuse program · DARE program · recovery center · detox facility
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