narcotics trade
Illegal substance commerce
The narcotics trade is the illegal business of producing, transporting, and selling controlled substances—heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and similar drugs.
The term encompasses everything from small-scale dealing to international trafficking networks: The narcotics trade has destabilized entire regions.
Law enforcement, journalists, and policymakers use the phrase to discuss drug commerce as a systemic phenomenon rather than isolated crimes.
- heroinIllegal addictive opiate
- black tarCrude, dark street heroin
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- traffickerIllegal goods dealer
- street dealerSidewalk narcotics seller
cocaine · crack cocaine · methamphetamine · smuggler · drug mule · money laundering · dirty money · cannabis · LSD · anti-drug campaigns · fentanyl · mule · opium · controlled substance · rehabilitation programs · ecstasy · bribery · morphine
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling
- Latin crimedrug trafficking, drug cartel, gang violence, kidnapping, human trafficking
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Policing illegal substances
border control · drug interdiction · drug war · drug prohibition · law enforcement
narcotics tradehumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
medical relief · public health programs · addiction treatment · rehabilitation services
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