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Animal sedative xylazine started being used on the streets of Puerto Rico but has recently been found in major cities in the US, and causes people's skin to rot off, requiring amputations

Sue Addis, 69, the owner the popular Brighton restaurants - Donatello's and Pinocchio's - was attacked by grandson Pietro, 17, as she lay in the bath at her £1million home

Police bust the flat in Middlesbrough after months of complaints from neighbours over round-the-clock parties, drug dealing and sex workers plying their trade in broad daylight

The game, called 'Ganjaland', appears to encourage players to take drugs and is being sold on retail websites such as eBay and Amazon, to the displeasure of anti-drug campaigners

Young inmates at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution in Rochester, Kent, have helped arrange for drugs to be thrown over the walls or dropped by drones. A source said this raises security concerns

Hull Crown Court heard graduate Danielle Stafford was an "enthusiastic" cannabis and cocaine dealer as a drugs stash with the street value of £33,600 was found in her Cottingham home

The Royal Navy crew on board the HMS Lancaster work to dismantle the global narcotics trade – busting criminals who pose as fishermen to ship heroin and meth

Helen Stobbart quickly deteriorated in the months before her death owing to her heroin addiction, crack cocaine, and methadone with her mum convinced she would still be alive with the right help

Illegal versions of anxiety medication have soared in popularity in recent years leading to a black market of "dirt-cheap but potentially fatal versions" of the drugs

Richard Wakeling had been placed on the National Crime Agency's 'most wanted' list after fleeing the country in 2018 but the drug trafficker has now been tracked down in Thailand

In the province of British Columbia, anyone today and for the next three years caught with 2.5 grams or less of hard drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth will no longer be arrested

Archaga Carías, 40, is head of MS-13 who are one of the most violent criminal gangs in the world and import large amounts of cocaine into the US along with conducting murder and kidnappings

Amsterdam city council is introducing stricter laws on cannabis smoking in the Dutch city from May, with bar, sex show and brothel opening hours also impacted by the news rules

Police are now investigating the 'suspicious parcel' that was seized after it was found to contain the Class B drug cannabis hidden with a box of cold and flu tablets

University academic Sergey Macheret, who taught at the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in West Lafayette, Indiana, US, was arrested on February 1

Kamran Niaz, an epidemiologist for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), tells The Mirror how the horrors seen in Bucha, Kherson and Kharkiv can't be carried out by people with a "normal mindset"

The parents of Bethany Shipsey, who died at the age of 21 after taking diet pills containing Dinitrophenol (DNP), want an outright ban on the ingredient, which can cause organ failure

A Sunday People investigation has found drugs considered more dangerous than some Class A narcotics still being sold with no age checks in shops and online despite Government plans to enforce a ban

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen promised juror Damien Drackley £5,000 to help him get off charges - but they were rumbled when defence witness Laurence 'Del Boy' Hayden was spotted nodding and winking at Drackley in court

Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again

The local community of Geraldine in Alabama, US, were stunned to discover their retired neighbour Hody Childress, 80, had been paying their pharmacy bills for over a decade

Armed officers stormed a residential street and arrested a 22-year-old man after a drive-by shooting at a funeral in Euston saw four women and two children injured

Violent criminals from Albania now run the cocaine market in most parts of the UK, but so far have not managed to get a foothold in one particular city due to local gangs "protecting" the streets

Griselda Blanco, dubbed the Cocaine Godmother, was the queenpin among kingpins in the Colombian Medellin drug cartel of the 70s and 80s. She was a trailblazer for women entrepreneurs the world over

Vanity Bar and Nightclub has been shut down for three months by Westminster City Council over the allegations, but lawyers for the venue said the punters just spent too much on strippers