All news on the topic: Drugs

Hunter Michael Shepard, 28, from West Virginia, US, was admitted to rehab five times but it was when he entered a "scary" zombie-like state his life changed forever

Mum-of-three Nadia Stanway, 40, has been jailed for dealing heroin and crack cocaine to allegedly fund her own drug habit from her home in a quiet estate in the Cheshire countryside

Residents of an estate in Worcester have complained about antisocial behaviour in a nearby car park - and say that despite reporting the issue to the police, nothing has been done to solve it

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US reported at least two women aged 28 and 47 have been struck down with the first known cases of the drug-resistant ringworm known as tinea

The "zombie drug", which is also known as the animal tranquilizer xylazine, can lead to skin and muscle rotting away if mixed with illegal drugs such as heroin and fentanyl

Steven Graham, 60, fears his son Woramet Ben Taota was lured to his death by a girl who was addicted to meth before the pair were both found dead near a village in Thailand

Hannah Deacon helped change the law when she secured cannabis prescription for her severely ill son Alfie Dingley. But now, a "cowboy" CBD firm has been using her name to flog its product

Four Americans that crossed into Matamoros from Texas so that one of them could have cosmetic surgery were kidnapped on March 3 and two were killed

Laura Smallbone was devastated when her husband, Peter, 47, passed away after battling a fast-growing and aggressive brain tumour for 15 months - and now she's backing a new form of treatment

John Keet invested profits from a career dealing cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines into building and managing the lab in Henley-in-Arden, a quaint market town in Warwickshire

Newquay in Cornwall used to have a reputation for being a party town but in recent years that has changed, but locals insist things are as bad as ever as drug taking runs rampant

Stephen Jennings and Sarah Hunt helped drugs kingpins in Derby pocket nearly £70k dropping off cocaine at houses in the city which a judge likened to the delivery app

Ronald Antinore, 53, made contact over social media with his daughter in August, 2021 before agreeing to meet up with at Clarion Inn & Suites in Clearwater Beach in Florida, US

Newquay in Cornwall boasts inviting waters and golden beaches but was blighted as the "British Magaluf" and, in recent years, has faced further challenges to its reputation

Twitter users shared messages from drug dealers taking advantage of the crowning of King Charles with Coronation themed advertising

A 28-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man have unexpectedly and suddenly died after attending the Basildon Dance Music Festival, in Essex, on Sunday

44-year-old Enrique Perez was stopped by authorities outside the Yankees Stadium in the Bronx where they uncovered $5 million worth of fentanyl-laced pills and almost 5kg of powdered fentanyl

Rudy Lazo, 79, moved to the US from El Salvador in the 1980s to start a family but would regularly drive 125 miles to Tijuana to deliver toys, food and clothes to help those less fortunate

Officers found messages relating to the buying, selling and delivery of the Class A drug - including one message where the idea of exchanging coke for oral sex was mentioned

Proud Scot Jock Zonfrillo was 46 when he died and Jock's family confirmed the sad news in a statement on social media

The town of Neath, in southwestern Wales, has been revamped in recent years and now has a new leisure centre, library, cafes and bars - but some locals think more needs to be done

Police began their investigation in 2019 after discovering that mental health nurse Amy Hatfield was smuggling items such as cannabis, tobacco, phones and chargers into HMP Lindholme in Doncaster

Obese people who took tirzepatide lose up to 16% of their body weight thanks to weekly injections of the drug which helps patients shed up to 50 pounds

Tangaraju Suppiah was killed at Changi prison in Singapore yesterday despite calls from activists and human rights campaigners to halt the execution of the 46-year-old man

Laced pills flooding the illicit drug market increasingly claim lives, with the horse tranquillizer Xylazine causing a shocking spike. Users could get gangrene and even amputation of limbs