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One of El Chapo's sons has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, known as 'The Mouse,' faces a range of charges including drug trafficking

Mother-of-two Charlotte Hibbert, 26, was found unresponsive at home and pronounced dead at the scene on February 16, 2022. A coroner said her death was drug-related

A spike in overdose deaths has resulted from the combination of fentanyl and stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamines, a new study reveals — and it's causing the fourth wave in the opioid crisis

A passenger travelling from Glasgow Airport said some boys sitting behind her stole her bottle of water and put something in it that left her feeling 'confused' and 'frightened'

The chart topping Busted - and McBusted - star opened up to Tom Bryant's Men in Mind podcast, in association with Mind, about managing life on the road as a recovering addict

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the glamorous wife of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, has been released from prison after a reduced sentence today

Hakan Ayik has been singled out by federal police as at high risk from his fellow criminals because he hailed an encrypted messaging app that allowed police to watch as every illicit deal was made

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, the wife of infamous drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is due to be released from a residential re-entry facility in Long Beach, California, after serving her sentence for drug trafficking

In the first seven months of 2023, 71 people were slaughtered as three drug cartels - the Sinaloa Cartel, The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), and Los Zetas - try to take control of the port of Manzanillo

Gavin "Capable" Preston was reportedly involved in high-level extortion rackets and the killings of other gangland figures - He was gunned down at Sweet Lulu's cafe in Keilor East, Melbourne

The Met Police had been accused of failing in their duty of care after Mikias Tekeste, 30, was found unwell in his cell after ingesting an unknown substance while in a police vehicle in Croydon

Phillip Taylor used the handle "Frosty Bear" on an encrypted communications platform to deal heroin, cocaine and cannabis on a "commercial scale" for "substantial profits"

Wegovy can see patients lose 15% of their body weight and is now available in the UK which has seen the drug company's owner's shares spiral.

A woman has called for immediate action from her local authority and police after her children saw people taking drugs, urinating and defecating near their home on a daily basis

A drug user from the streets of Whitechapel in east London has explained why he thinks the UK streets are going to soon feel the force of the prescription drug epidemic the USA is facing.

The Home Office has said it has no intention of setting up 'safe consumption facilities' where people can inject drugs under medical supervision - which MPs say will lower the risk of overdoses

Margaret Pomeroy spoke of her heartbreak as her son Michael McDonagh was found unresponsive at HMP Forest Bank, a Category B jail in Salford, Greater Manchester

A vulnerable cuckooing victim was targeted by four thugs in a "Quentin Tarantino style revenge" attack after his home was taken over for the supply of Class A drugs

The number of teenage deaths from one drug stronger than heroin remains at record levels in the US. High schoolers overdose at school and at home from the fentanyl-opiod epidemic

Linda McVean, who lost her boy Frankie in May, bought the street Valium pills for £10 before shaming the dealer by telling him “these are the same pills that killed my son”

An Indiana State Trooper was patrolling an area of Vincennes when he spotted the 51-year-old identified as John McKee operating a Power Wheels Jeep on the city's roads

Kenneth Law, 57, was arrested in Ontario, Canada, and charged with two counts of counselling and aiding suicide after allegedly selling a lethal substance to people across the world

The hot air balloon crashed into power lines before landing on a busy intersection in Albuquerque, New Mexico, killing all five on board including the pilot who had used marijuana 'hours' before

Anti-anxiety drug Phenibut, developed in the 1960s to help the Soviet military handle pressure, is a growing concern for drug charities, which fear more users are becoming hooked

Drug outreach workers in Tower Hamlets, London, say they've seen a disturbing rise in users with flesh-eating abscesses sparking belief there is a new opioid on the rise disguised as heroin