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Illegal versions of anxiety medication have soared in popularity in recent years leading to a black market of "dirt-cheap but potentially fatal versions" of the drugs

Richard Wakeling had been placed on the National Crime Agency's 'most wanted' list after fleeing the country in 2018 but the drug trafficker has now been tracked down in Thailand

In the province of British Columbia, anyone today and for the next three years caught with 2.5 grams or less of hard drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth will no longer be arrested

Archaga Carías, 40, is head of MS-13 who are one of the most violent criminal gangs in the world and import large amounts of cocaine into the US along with conducting murder and kidnappings

Amsterdam city council is introducing stricter laws on cannabis smoking in the Dutch city from May, with bar, sex show and brothel opening hours also impacted by the news rules

Police are now investigating the 'suspicious parcel' that was seized after it was found to contain the Class B drug cannabis hidden with a box of cold and flu tablets

University academic Sergey Macheret, who taught at the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in West Lafayette, Indiana, US, was arrested on February 1

Kamran Niaz, an epidemiologist for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), tells The Mirror how the horrors seen in Bucha, Kherson and Kharkiv can't be carried out by people with a "normal mindset"

The parents of Bethany Shipsey, who died at the age of 21 after taking diet pills containing Dinitrophenol (DNP), want an outright ban on the ingredient, which can cause organ failure

A Sunday People investigation has found drugs considered more dangerous than some Class A narcotics still being sold with no age checks in shops and online despite Government plans to enforce a ban

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court

Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again

The local community of Geraldine in Alabama, US, were stunned to discover their retired neighbour Hody Childress, 80, had been paying their pharmacy bills for over a decade

Armed officers stormed a residential street and arrested a 22-year-old man after a drive-by shooting at a funeral in Euston saw four women and two children injured

Violent criminals from Albania now run the cocaine market in most parts of the UK, but so far have not managed to get a foothold in one particular city due to local gangs "protecting" the streets

Griselda Blanco, dubbed the Cocaine Godmother, was the queenpin among kingpins in the Colombian Medellin drug cartel of the 70s and 80s. She was a trailblazer for women entrepreneurs the world over

Vanity Bar and Nightclub has been shut down for three months by Westminster City Council over the allegations, but lawyers for the venue said the punters just spent too much on strippers

Geordie Shore’s Marty McKenna will now reportedly be absent from the upcoming return of MTV's spin-off series, Geordie Shore: The Reunion Series

Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood said four people were stabbed "multiple times" at an Airbnb in North Carolina, US, which saw six people arrested and charged

Megan Woodham, a healthcare assistant at HMP Risley in Warrington, has been jailed for her role in a multi-million pound drugs plot which included smuggling ketamine into prison

"Manipulative" Harri Pullen is alleged to have had flings with both prison nurse Elyse Hibbs and officer Ruth Shmylo while serving time at HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales

Teacher Frank Thompson, 57, is thought to have been under the influence of fentanyl, which he had stashed in the cupboard of his classroom at the school he worked at in New Jersey, when he was found unresponsive

Lila-Grace Smith's heartbroken mother Emma Hargreaves said they had spoken about her friends taking drugs, but she had told her mum she had never taken any herself

Spare, Prince Harry's memoir, has been leaked after going on sale in Spain and contains a number of drug-related revelations involving the Duke of Sussex taking cocaine and magic mushrooms

Consultant podiatrist Abid Hussain has warned Brits about the dangerous laughing gas trend that is 'plaguing' parts of Britain as he has seen patients develop severe symptoms