All news on the topic: Drugs

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NHS compelled to pay over £31 million for violent attacks on healthcare workers
NHs staff have received payouts in 1,496 cases totalling £31.4million over the last seven years, NHS records show - and legal fees of £28.4m nearly doubled the bill for the taxpayer.
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Laughing drug dealer filmed with wads of cash while claiming benefits gets jailed
A laughing drug dealer who filmed himself with wads of cash while claiming benefits is no longer smiling after he was locked up.
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"UK bans ’zombie drug’ found in vapes after 11 deaths from flesh-eating substance
The drug, which is strong enough to knock out an elephant, has also been linked to 11 deaths here since 2022.
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Dozens of Los Angeles wildfire looters pictured, including a man carrying a dagger
Dozens of people accused of looting homes and businesses amid the Palisades Fire in the upscale coastal Los Angeles County neighborhood have been pictured in mugshots.
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Paralysed driver from drug crash caught smuggling drugs into the UK
A man left paralysed from the waist down after crashing a car while high on cocaine tried to smuggle almost a kilo of cannabis through Heathrow Airport, a court heard.
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Drones transporting drugs to prison cells pose a national security threat
The UK’s top prison inspector has warned drug drones are a national security threat, as inmates burn holes in their windows to receive deliveries.
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Rasquiña’s revolution: How the Choneros took control of Ecuador’s prisons.
It took Ecuador’s police nine months to track down the country’s most wanted fugitive. But when they found him outside an apartment complex in Bogotá, Colombia, the leader of the Choneros gang...
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Nurse struck off for drugging patients for an easy life
A nurse who sedated patients for quieter shifts then laughed aout it has been struck off.
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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.