drug trade
Black market pharmaceuticals
The drug trade is the business of manufacturing, distributing, and selling illegal drugs.
The term encompasses everything from street-level dealing to international trafficking networks: The drug trade fuels violence in border towns, He got caught up in the drug trade as a teenager.
Sometimes called the drug traffic or narcotics trade.
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- border crossingTransit between sovereign territories
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
- kingpinCriminal organization's leader
organized crime · trafficking · dealer · syndicate · cultivation · prohibition · narcotics · black market · dirty money · contraband · distribution · street corner · corruption · mule · chemist · addiction · concealment · laundering
- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- ColombiaBogota, Medellin, Cali, Colombian flag, Colombian coffee
- narcotraffickingnarcos, cartel, cartels, kingpin, traffickers
- Traffickingtrafficking, trafficker, smuggling, human trafficking, sex trafficking
drug tradedrug rehabilitation
Treatment for substance addiction
addiction treatment · healthcare system · humanitarian aid · medical care · public health services
drug tradedrug enforcement
Policing illegal substances
drug interdiction · law enforcement · border patrol · customs enforcement · drug war
trade, drug, drugs, drugged, drugstore, drugging, druggist, drugmaker, drug trafficking