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Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has announced plans to revamp its US listing, while emphasizing that it will keep its headquarters in the UK and remain listed on the London market.

US President Donald Trump has announced a new set of tariffs, including a 100% levy on imported branded or patented drugs starting 1 October unless the company is establishing a factory in the US.

An media investigation has found that primary school children are using Ketamine during their lunch breaks, knowing the effects will have worn off by the time they return to class.

New vape-spiking detection equipment is being employed in a crackdown across London, with operations targeting bars, clubs, and party boats.

The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth close to €519 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday, September 25.

Syria’s transitional government is cracking down on the production of Captagon — an illicit synthetic stimulant that flourished under the sponsorship of the Bashar al-Assad regime until its fall in December.

Europol-supported operations in Spain and Portugal have seized more than 4 tonnes of cocaine and led to over 60 arrests between November 2024 and September 2025.

Cocaine use is now more popular than ever in the U.S., with a major resurgence in recent years, allowing the Mexican drug lord largely responsible for the boom to profit.

The operation spanned 18 countries across Asia and North Africa, with authorities reportedly seizing fentanyl in quantities “enough to kill 151 million people.”

Three people acted "like a pack of wild animals" when they attacked a man in a block of flats, as a court has heard. Joshua Bassett, Deborah Delaney, and Jamie Davies used a claw hammer, a bottle, and boots to beat their victim, leaving him battered, bruised, and bleeding from a head wound.

The alleged head of a large cocaine-smuggling operation, who was one of Europe’s most wanted men at the time of his arrest, has gone on trial in Brussels.

A British law student is facing a 25-year sentence in a Dubai jail after taking "a single line of cocaine" at a party.

A beautician has been sentenced to just six years in prison for trafficking £15 million worth of drugs through a United States airport.

With fear evident on their faces, two Brits facing the death penalty in Bali for a £300,000 cocaine drug plot were today displayed in front of photographers.

A pensioner who attempted to smuggle cocaine worth more than £600,000 into the UK hidden in his mobility scooter has been jailed.

The text message came from Dubai with a Santa emoji. "OK lads. No need for luck. Really this couldn’t be any more straightforward. Just relax and this will all be over soon."

Former boxer and world champion trainer Andrew Bulcroft - known as ’Stefy Bull’ - has been jailed for 10 years for conspiracy to supply cocaine.

Bella Cully, 19, faces life behind bars or 20 years in prison after being arrested earlier this year for allegedly taking cannabis into Georgia.

Pregnant drugs mule suspect Bella Culley’s distraught mother was seen visiting her daughter in Georgian prison today as lawyers say she may have to find £100,000 to free her.

President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing 11 "Narcoterrorists".

The release of Scotland’s latest drug death statistics is an annual event that has become tragically routine.