Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

Ecuador authorities seize drug-smuggling sub - CNN.com : "fully functional submarine built for the primary purpose of transporting massive amounts of cocaine has been seized by Ecuadorean authorities with the help of U.S. drug enforcement agents. A drug-trafficking organization built the sea-worthy vessel that is now being held near the border of Ecuador and Colombia, and one individual has been taken into custody, authorities said. The investigation into the group and the submarine, which was seized Friday, is ongoing. 'This is the first seizure of a clandestinely constructed fully operational submarine built to facilitate trans-oceanic drug trafficking,' the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement."

Gangsters have a new drug of choice : "gangster Dennis Karbovanec walked into a Surrey high-rise in October 2007 and shot three people in the head, he was addicted to the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin. And when his former Red Scorpion gang-mate Anton Hooites-Meursing played a role in the same Surrey Six murder plot, he was also struggling with an addiction to the pill police say is akin to 'prescription heroin.' Jamie Bacon, the purported Red Scorpion leader, is similarly addicted to the drug, according to a Surrey pretrial memo highlighted in a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling condemning Bacon's jail conditions. Police say an increasing number of mid-level B.C. gangsters are popping Oxys to relieve the stress and pain of their volatile life in the criminal underworld. And one former gangster says the big problem with the synthetic opiate used to control intense pain is that it removes inhibitions to troubling gang behaviours including acts of brutalit...