A teenager has been arrested after drugs with an estimated street value of £75,000 were seized in Aberdeen.
The 19-year-old local man was held after heroin, cocaine and cannabis was recovered in the Cairncry area on …
A man from Londonderry has been remanded in custody following the seizure of £2m worth of drugs.
Police found eight kilograms of heroin and 210,000 suspected ecstasy tablets in a lorry in Londonderry on Saturday.
Sean Doherty, …
The death of Michael Jackson dominates the front pages, and several of the papers include pull-outs and special supplements on his life.
The Independent’s headline – “Jackson: the plot thickens” – sums up the tone of …
An Edinburgh solicitor has been accused of dealing drugs from the law firm where he worked as a partner.
Grant O’Connor, 37, is alleged to have supplied cocaine to four men from the offices of Allan …
Five men have been charged with drugs offences after the seizure of cannabis worth an estimated £700,000 in east Belfast on Friday morning.
The drugs were recovered along with cash and three cars during a police …
A major new cocaine trafficking route has developed into the UK through the Balkans, the UN has warned.
It said the amount trafficked through Eastern Europe has increased “dramatically” and has contributed to the low cost …
A “fun loving” woman who hoped to become a police officer, died of a drugs overdose, a coroner has ruled.
Katie Jones, aged 20, and from Henllan, Denbighshire, collapsed at the Kendal Calling music festival in …
Fifteen airline crew members have been bailed after officials at Heathrow airport seized cannabis and cocaine with a street value of £310,000.
The South African Airways staff, including three pilots, were arrested on Tuesday after 50kg …
Police have arrested 23 people after cocaine and cannabis was seized in a series of raids in Basildon and London.
The properties were raided in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
A spokesman for Essex Police said …
Two men involved in a £100,000 heroin deal on a farm near Dumfries have been jailed for a total of 10 years.
John Petrie, 41, and Angus Douglas, 62, were arrested after a police raid at …
An estimated 4,000 children in Nottingham have parents who use heroin or crack, according to a research project.
Radford-based Stars, which works with children affected by their parents drug abuse, said it was seeing children as …
A “respectable” former public schoolboy who drifted into the world of drugs was battered to death by another middle-class man, the Old Bailey has heard.
Michael Jordan, 25, of Ashtead, Surrey, denies murdering Matthew Demko, also …
A new guide to help landlords spot the signs of cannabis factories and other drug production in rented properties has been produced by Suffolk Police.
The guide urges landlords to look out for telltale signs that …
A drug user from Lanarkshire has died after contracting a rare flesh-eating disease.
Health chiefs issued a public alert earlier this week after two other drug addicts fell seriously ill with necrotising fasciitis.
The latest victim died …
A man from Merseyside has been charged with importing cocaine and ecstasy into the Isle of Man.
The island’s drug trafficking unit seized the Class A drugs, worth an estimated £65,000, at the Sea Terminal in …
A growing number of Asian women are using Class A drugs, according to leading Asian drugs charity Nafas.
Ten years ago drug misuse amongst British Asian women was unheard of.
Now, Nafas says it is treating 20 …
Two men and a woman have been charged with drug offences after cocaine worth £500,000 was seized during raids.
Officers from Durham Police targeted five addresses in Darlington and one in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
A total of …
Like other religions, Hinduism generally disapproves of the use of non-prescription drugs.
In the past, however, drugs played an important part in worship. In the Vedas a drug called Soma was used as an offering and …
A haul of suspected class A drugs has been seized by the police drug squad on the outskirts of west Belfast.
A police spokesperson said officers acting on “intelligence-led information” discovered the drugs in Poleglass on …
An Oxfordshire man has been jailed for possession of Class A drugs which police said were so rare they had never previously been seen in Europe.
The drugs were found at a house in River View, …
Four men have been arrested after drugs said to be worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen.
The men – aged 18, 19, 20 and 29 – are from the London and Wolverhampton areas.
Grampian Police …
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has revealed the band are starting auditions to replace Steven Tyler.
“We’ll have found a new singer by the summer and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road,” …
Smokers of the strong ‘skunk’ variety of cannabis are seven times more likely to experience psychosis, according to the Daily Mail.
The news comes from research comparing 280 people being treated for new psychosis with 174 …
Gardaí are continuing to question two men in their 20s in County Monaghan after a large quantity of cannabis was seized.
The haul is believed to be worth about 300,000 euros.
Gardaí from the Monaghan Drugs Unit …
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