All news on the topic: Drugs

The damning 173-page report in Greater Manchester Police and other authorities' failed handling of Rochdale grooming gangs' abuse of young girls was released today

Boscombe is an area of Bournemouth, Dorset, popular with tourists for its beaches and characterful charm but some locals argue the neighbourhoods has long had a drug problem

A young boy was found gasping for air during a nap at his dad's home in Golf Manor, Ohio, having gained access to, and overdosing on, the highly dangerous drug fentanyl

A North Carolina boy, aged 6, was rushed to hospital and slept for 17 hours after consuming 13 times the adult dosage of a THC-laced candy he thought were freeze-dried Skittles

Doctors discharged a dying man and got police officers to take him away, but the cops feared for his life and tried to take him to another hospital, but were too late

Jordan Ramsay, 31, was playing hide-and-seek with her three-year-old son at Pilriig Park in Edinburgh on Sunday when she found her toddler lying on top of an exposed needle near the play area

Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag

Blackpool's seaside splendour is no longer the draw it once was, with the streets littered with junkies and children who play bare foot in the mould and rat-infested streets

Savanah Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra were found shot dead in their car just blocks from the San Antonio hospital where she was set to be induced to give birth to their child

Andy Neal, now 46, was arrested in October 2018 when Dubai police raided the family home while his two children were present, accusing him of being a drug trafficker

Five men and three women were convicted after a Glasgow court heard four children, all under 13, were plied with drugs and alcohol then violently and sexually abused

A group of hospital workers were left horrified when they caught one of their colleagues on CCTV robbing opioids and injecting herself with fentanyl while on the clock

A missing teen who was picked up by a 34-year-old before being taken to his home, raped and strangled has now been found. The 16-year-old girl was found behind a trapdoor

The huge shipment of cocaine was found in 77 plastic bags on a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean, with the cargo reportedly intercepted while being transported to Central America.

Home Secretary told female guests at a No10 reception that 'a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night' was 'not really illegal if it’s only a little bit'

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe, according to tests, but now one city's parliament is proposing to legalise the drug

Tony Hadley, 63, a singer in the 1980s pop group Spandau Ballet, says that he didn't dare to try any kind of drugs because his grandma scared him out of it

Professor Chris Pudney, from the University of Bath, says that benzodiazepines - a class of drugs used for the treatment of anxiety in medical settings - are being sold on the black market and used by opioid addicts, creating a deadly drug cocktail that can easily kill

A 27-year-old man, described as an off-duty student officer - has been arrested on suspicion of drink and drug driving and driving dangerously after a car smashed into a house

María Consuelo Loera Pérez, mother of one of the most powerful drug lords on the planet Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has died aged 94 at a hospital in Culiacan, Sinaloa

Police have arrested a boy aged 12 after a teenage girl was reportedly hospitalised when she used a vape, with teachers and parents being told to remain vigilant

Nitazenes are 50 times as powerful as fentanyl and have already lead to deaths in the UK - and the terrifying drug could now spark a gang war too as it becomes more influential due to a reduced supply of heroin

Charlie Cooper, 28, from Warrington, was allowed to get dressed by police after he was arrested because he was acting in a "calm" way, but he then ran off on foot

A 63-year-old woman was arrested and released on bail in connection to the alleged spikings, police said

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.