More than three-quarters of the county's prisoners, he said, were being held in drug-related cases.

She added that the 11th Circuit judges "handle so many drug-related cases."

In the last four years, the criminal caseload has increased 21 percent, with drug-related cases growing nearly 85 percent, the report said.

Prosecutors and judges attribute this increase almost exclusively to drug-related cases.

They said the husband-turned-informer had been arrested in a drug-related case.

Drug court, for example, hears only drug-related criminal cases.

In 1984, drug-related cases accounted for 7 percent of police killings.

Over the last two decades, drug-related cases in New York State have increased by 400 percent the report said.

Most drug-related cases are pretty much the same.