All news on the topic: Methamphetamine

A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.

The immediate suspension of Ian Vaevaso follows an investigative report revealing he destroyed confiscated methamphetamine before becoming top cop.

As Mexico struggles with a cartel-driven methamphetamine crisis, even makeshift rehab centers have become vulnerable to gang infiltration and attacks.

Solomon Islands has appointed a new national police chief, elevating a top commander just weeks after it was revealed that prosecutors.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), marking a continued decline since the Taliban’s 2022 nationwide ban on poppy farming.

A suspected Australian drug lord came from humble beginnings in Sydney’s western suburbs before rising to the helm of an international crime syndicate allegedly responsible for kidnappings, murder plots, and mass methamphetamine production Down Under.

Among the 10 people arrested in Fiji last week in a major anti-drug operation was the son of a senior pro-China politician from Palau, who presides over his country’s Senate.

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

A British Airways flight attendant was found high on drugs and completely naked in an onboard toilet during a flight from California to London, a court heard.

Former Co-operative Bank chairman and ex-Methodist minister Paul Flowers has been sentenced after being found to have abused his position as the executor of a will for a ’vulnerable person’.

The network reeled in monthly profits of up to 18 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($431,923) from the production and selling of 60 kg of amphetamine to 18 drug labs nation-wide.

On September 21, 2021, Javier Algredo Vázquez was on his way to a US law enforcement office to reclaim chemical substances authorities had seized from him days earlier. In some respects, his trip that day was a remarkable act of hubris.