All news on the topic: Synthetic Drugs

Ukrainian law enforcement has dismantled the U420 chain of drug shops operating across the country, linking the network to the criminal organization “KhimProm” and its alleged leader, Russian drug lord Yegor Burkin, who has been on the international wanted list since 2019 and is believed to be hiding in Mexico.

Indian companies have shipped more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – over the past three years, a Bellingcat investigation has found.

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.

The number of drug overdose deaths has soared to a 32-year high, including a fourfold increase in lives lost after taking synthetic drugs up to 100 times more potent than heroin.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that two alleged leaders of a British crime group have been given decades-long prison sentences for planning to smuggle multi-ton shipments of cocaine and cannabis into the country.

When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations

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.