All news on the topic: Drugs

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Woman backs cannabis-based trial for brain tumours after losing husband at 47
Laura Smallbone was devastated when her husband, Peter, 47, passed away after battling a fast-growing and aggressive brain tumour for 15 months - and now she's backing a new form of treatment
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One of UK's biggest 'Breaking Bad' labs produced drugs worth £10million a month
John Keet invested profits from a career dealing cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines into building and managing the lab in Henley-in-Arden, a quaint market town in Warwickshire
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Life in 'UK's Magaluf' - drugs on beaches, police raids and £1million houses
Newquay in Cornwall used to have a reputation for being a party town but in recent years that has changed, but locals insist things are as bad as ever as drug taking runs rampant
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Middle-aged couple caught running £70k 'Deliveroo-style' cocaine service
Stephen Jennings and Sarah Hunt helped drugs kingpins in Derby pocket nearly £70k dropping off cocaine at houses in the city which a judge likened to the delivery app
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Adopted woman raped by biological dad after meeting for first time, police say
Ronald Antinore, 53, made contact over social media with his daughter in August, 2021 before agreeing to meet up with at Clarion Inn & Suites in Clearwater Beach in Florida, US
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Bustling seaside town was once 'UK's Magaluf' but is now overrun with drug users
Newquay in Cornwall boasts inviting waters and golden beaches but was blighted as the "British Magaluf" and, in recent years, has faced further challenges to its reputation
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'Coronation cocaine' and 'Peruvian Charlie' sold as drug dealers cash in
Twitter users shared messages from drug dealers taking advantage of the crowning of King Charles with Coronation themed advertising
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Man and woman suddenly die after music festival as police launch 'drug' probe
A 28-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man have unexpectedly and suddenly died after attending the Basildon Dance Music Festival, in Essex, on Sunday
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Mexican cartel drug smuggler arrested with $5m fentanyl pill stash
44-year-old Enrique Perez was stopped by authorities outside the Yankees Stadium in the Bronx where they uncovered $5 million worth of fentanyl-laced pills and almost 5kg of powdered fentanyl
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Man, 79, beaten to death in Mexico while delivering donations to poor families
Rudy Lazo, 79, moved to the US from El Salvador in the 1980s to start a family but would regularly drive 125 miles to Tijuana to deliver toys, food and clothes to help those less fortunate
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Cocaine dealer caught after advertising new job for worker who's 'not a grass'
Officers found messages relating to the buying, selling and delivery of the Class A drug - including one message where the idea of exchanging coke for oral sex was mentioned
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MasterChef's Jock Zonfrillo's wild life- addiction to setting apprentice on fire
Proud Scot Jock Zonfrillo was 46 when he died and Jock's family confirmed the sad news in a statement on social media
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Inside transformed town desperate to rid old reputation of drink, drugs and yobs
The town of Neath, in southwestern Wales, has been revamped in recent years and now has a new leisure centre, library, cafes and bars - but some locals think more needs to be done
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Ribena uncovers one of UK's biggest prison drug smuggling rings involving nurse
Police began their investigation in 2019 after discovering that mental health nurse Amy Hatfield was smuggling items such as cannabis, tobacco, phones and chargers into HMP Lindholme in Doncaster
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New weight loss drug is 'more powerful than Ozempic'
Obese people who took tirzepatide lose up to 16% of their body weight thanks to weekly injections of the drug which helps patients shed up to 50 pounds
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Innocent man hanged over 1kg of cannabis he did not even touch in execution
Tangaraju Suppiah was killed at Changi prison in Singapore yesterday despite calls from activists and human rights campaigners to halt the execution of the 46-year-old man
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'Zombie' skin-rotting Tranq drug horror on streets as users lose limbs and die
Laced pills flooding the illicit drug market increasingly claim lives, with the horse tranquillizer Xylazine causing a shocking spike. Users could get gangrene and even amputation of limbs
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8 bodies found in tourist hotspot as cop warns 'most dangerous time to travel'
Human remains were discovered over the weekend around ten miles from Cancun's beach and hotel resorts. Cops believe the bodies had been dumped there between one week and two months ago
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Police make £180,000 discovery after stopping car with cracked windscreen on M6
Derek Miller and Mark Lindsey were driving around Warrington in a Renault Kangoo when police pulled them over for their cracked windscreen - and officers found 26kg of drugs in the car
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Dad caught with £85k of heroin and crack in sports bag when he fell off his bike
Craig Byatt was attempting to escape police along a canal towpath when he slipped and was arrested while carrying the illicit class A substances inside a sports bag
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Cracked windscreen brings down drug ring as pair caught with £100k of cannabis
Two men were caught with more than £100,000 worth of cannabis after police stopped them on the M6 with a cracked windscreen and subjected the driver and passenger to a drugs test
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Mum accused of hurling baby twins off balcony before jumping from it herself
Claudia L, 37, a crystal meth addict living in Dresden, Germany, is accused of chucking her two six-month-old sons off her balcony before jumping from it herself
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Dad with one year to live now nearly cancer-free after taking cannabis oil
Luke Goodwin feels as “right as rain” when he takes the oils alongside his chemotherapy treatment for stage 4 leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that grows in the smooth muscles of the body's organs
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Lamb found in car with '£10,000 worth of heroin and cocaine' after police stop
Police Scotland were left stunned to find none other than a farmyard animal on the backseats of a vehicle after it was stopped on a motorway near Glasgow
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New VR game simulates hallucinogenics like LSD for 'therapeutic' purposes
A new VR game called 'Psyrreal' simulates the effects of psychedelic drugs like LSD or DMT so you can experience the effects without any of the risks