He makes a bundle from drug cases, and has earned the reputation in the narcotics industry as a lawyer who can be trusted.

The size of the narcotics industry as a part of the national economy is difficult to measure, but estimates range from $300-$600 million.

Unlike our other major industries, however, the narcotics industry doesn't have a net effect of creating wealth.

It is hardly news that predatory corruption, fueled by a booming illicit narcotics industry, is rampant at every level of Afghan society.

Years of armed conflict, rapacious development and the narcotics industry have displaced Afro-Colombians and created an ecological catastrophe.

And for the rest of us, well, as you know, the narcotics industry is now the biggest source of fi- nance for cross-frontier crime throughout Europe.

But that's also the case, increasingly, across the entire narcotics industry.

Anonymous Letters Both the residents and the police tried to drive out the narcotics industry.

Public support for tougher enforcement against a narcotics industry whose volume may approach $100 billion annually masks a profound ambivalence that bars any simple solution.

These elements continue to be very successful against the narcotics industry which thrives in Colombia.