All news on the topic: Drugs

Professor Chris Pudney, from the University of Bath, says that benzodiazepines - a class of drugs used for the treatment of anxiety in medical settings - are being sold on the black market and used by opioid addicts, creating a deadly drug cocktail that can easily kill

A 27-year-old man, described as an off-duty student officer - has been arrested on suspicion of drink and drug driving and driving dangerously after a car smashed into a house

María Consuelo Loera Pérez, mother of one of the most powerful drug lords on the planet Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has died aged 94 at a hospital in Culiacan, Sinaloa

Police have arrested a boy aged 12 after a teenage girl was reportedly hospitalised when she used a vape, with teachers and parents being told to remain vigilant

Nitazenes are 50 times as powerful as fentanyl and have already lead to deaths in the UK - and the terrifying drug could now spark a gang war too as it becomes more influential due to a reduced supply of heroin

Charlie Cooper, 28, from Warrington, was allowed to get dressed by police after he was arrested because he was acting in a "calm" way, but he then ran off on foot

A 63-year-old woman was arrested and released on bail in connection to the alleged spikings, police said

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.

Known violent criminal in Indiana State, Christopher Boyd, was pulled over recently with police baffled as to why he was so tense. It turned out he illegally had a gun stuck up his rectum

A new study has revealed the gender life expectancy gap in the US is at its highest points in decades - with the causes of death also seeing very interesting changes

Merseyside Police have urged parents and students to learn the harmful effects of drug taking after a schoolgirl, aged 12 or 13, was found unresponsive in St Helens

The artist behind the painting died in 2021 and his works have brought in millions of pounds before one mysterious painting ended up in the hands of a retired dog walker

Following the release of the band's 13th studio album, we take a look at the life of Madness legend Suggs, including his wayward past and downwards spiral with drugs

Rhyddion Williams was found dead in his bed only weeks after the birth of his second daughter. Now his heartbroken fiancée, Chelsea, has paid tribute to a man who put “everyone before himself”

Suzanne Doherty's baby son Leo was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis just weeks after he was born - and she is now worried he won't get the treatment he needs to survive on the NHS

Patients showing symptoms of conditions including sinusitis and sore throat will be able to self-refer to pharmacies and get drugs without a GP's prescription starting from January

Four men have been found guilty at Preston Crown Court of killing John Hutchinson, 44, in a revenge attack in Blackpool in April. They will be sentenced at a later date

Amanda Hauser, 51, accidentally took a drug known as monkey dust and banged on people's doors claiming men were after her and was later arrested

A car valet owner was shocked when he was asked to transform an incredibly dirty car filled with mud, hay and used needles and had to spend seven hours working on it

Former CIA agent Brian Jeffrey Raymond would drug women before sexually assaulting them while they were unconscious - while on postings around the world. Now, he faces decades behind bars

James White, 46, from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, led a 'sophisticated' drugs and guns gang that saw him rake in an estimated £126million before becoming one of the UK's most wanted men

The statistics for January 2020 to November 2022 include the case of PC William Holyoake, who got a community order for possessing cannabis and offensive weapons

The herd of hippos has grown to nearly 170 from just four that escaped from Escobar's private zoo in Puerto Triunfo 30 years ago. The government is now planning to cull the animals

Metropolitan Police Commander Julian Bennett was branded a 'deplorable' and showing 'complete disregard and disrespect' for the force after he refused to take a drugs test when he was accused of smoking cannabis every day before work

Ashley Dale, 28, was shot in her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in August last year, after an alleged feud between her partner Lee Harrison and the five men accused of her murder