All news on the topic: Drugs

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Inside the UK’s first legal drug consumption room
Welcome to the Thistle - the UK’s first and only drug consumption room.
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Louisiana mayor arrested in drug trafficking investigation
A drug trafficking investigation in Bogalusa, Louisiana, has led to the arrest of the city’s mayor, Tyrin Truong, and several other people, police said Tuesday.
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Home Office orders review: Ketamine may be reclassified as class a drug
The government is considering reclassifying the Class B drug after an increase in the number of people who reported using the drug.
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Liam Payne hotel ‘drug dealer’ who went on the run after singer’s death hands himself into police
A hotel worker accused of selling One Direction star Liam Payne drugs before his death has handed himself into police.
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Inside Dubai’s dark underbelly – where Brits face jail for bad Google reviews and minor car accidents
It was the most popular destination for Brits seeking winter sun last year, but what happens if you find yourself locked up for a ‘crime’ ...
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Prisons in England and Wales have seen a rapid increase in the use of drones to deliver drugs
Prisons will need more money to combat the rapid rise in drones delivering drugs, the head of an influential Commons committee has said, as figures showed the number of aerial incursions predicted to have tripled in two years.
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£50k Birmingham cannabis farm discovered during burglary callout
Two men were arrested at an address on Glebe Farm Road, Stechford
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UK’s biggest nightclub faces closure after ‘drug deaths and stabbing’
A 15,000-capacity superclub in London could have its licence stripped in the New Year following a spate of safety incidents.
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55 drivers arrested daily for drug driving as transport secretary hints at law change
Fifty-five drivers have been arrested every day for drug driving over the past three years
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Drugs mule sentenced to prison for smuggling £11k worth of cocaine
A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.
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£60,000 and documents seized from Liver Building following raid
A 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman have been arrested
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Warning to Brits about ’fake Ozempic’ as criminals sell dangerous counterfeit drugs to those looking to lose Christmas weight
A stark warning has been issued to Brits attempting to get their hands on weight loss drugs to counteract the extra pounds piled on over the Christmas period.
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Scottish drug lab boss jailed following arrest in Spain
A senior member of an organised crime group that ran an amphetamine lab in Scotland has been jailed for 13 years.
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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How the drug trade funded Bashar al-Assad’s £5 billion regime in Syria
Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.
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Man jailed for spiking pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drug
A man who spiked a pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drugs causing her to lose her unborn baby has been jailed for 12 years.
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Week-long county lines crackdown leads to 1,600 arrests, £3 million in drugs, and 557 weapons seized
More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Two arrested on drug charges following Belfast nightclub death
Two men in their 20s have been arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences following the death of a woman at a Belfast nightclub.
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Britain’s ’largest drug smuggling gang’ sentenced after £7 billion plot
A gang which smuggled up to £7 billion worth of drugs from the continent over two-a-half years have been jailed.
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Top Australian criminal target Zhao flourished in Fiji despite high-level warnings
Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief publicly associated with Zhao Fugang, a China-born businessman and Communist Party representative, even after police warned them that Zhao was suspected of ties to organized crime.
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Netflix "Too Hot to Handle" reality star arrested ’after being caught smuggling £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK’
A Netflix reality star has been arrested for attempting to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs from Thailand.
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Ex-footballer, 31, jailed for his role in a £250million drugs conspiracy
Jamie Menagh played for Stockport County among other clubs in the north west
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Newborn baby dies after being exposed to heroin and cocaine by mother
A mother has been jailed after exposing her baby daughter to heroin and cocaine before her death from a cardiac arrest.