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Man 'hospitalises colleagues with amphetamine-laced cake at Christmas party'
A New Zealand man allegedly brought a cake laced with hard drugs to his work Christmas party, hospitalising eight of his colleagues.
Pregnant mother 'passes out in car after shooting up heroin with 10-month-old in back seat'
Police in Evansville, Indiana say that Natalie Onay was found passed out behind the wheel of her car after reportedly injecting heroin while the 10-month-old was in the backseat.
Gang used drones to fly into jails £1.2m worth of drugs, phones and a Freeview box
The eleven-strong gang carried out 49 drone flights and 'throw-overs' into British jails mainly consisting of pre-ordered drugs but also tools, phones and a TV box.
Drugs mob behind gangland shootings dubbed 'the most sophisticated' jailed by Scots police
The gang have been prosecuted for drug-dealing, firearms, violence and kidnappings including the torture of a man over an unpaid cocaine debt.
See inside chicken farm in tiny village exposed as one of UK's biggest cannabis factories
Six arrested after police in Staffordshire uncover more than 3,000 cannabis plants in former poultry barns in Wheaton Aston.
'It's not just death and despair': Empowering Christmas makeovers of brave women who beat drug addiction
Amid America's critical opioid crisis, a drug recovery programme in Cincinnati, Ohio, treats ex-addicts to makeovers.
Fergie opens up about crystal meth drug addiction: 'I had dementia'
Fergie from The Black Eyed Peas has opened up about her past demons.
Crack and heroin gang kidnapped and tortured man in field they thought had stolen £40k drug stash
The gang wrongly suspected a man stole £30,000 to £40,000 of crack cocaine and heroin from a drugs safe house in Plumstead, south east London.
Heroin addict arranged to have £35k worth of skunk posted to her home
Geraldine Grant, from Widnes, Merseyside, was to receive a package containing 2.5 kilos of super-strength cannabis sent from Spain before it was intercepted at Gatwick Airport.
A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable' was caught after a baseball and machete fight with a gang
A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable', Leevon Birchall, has been jailed for 4 years for possession of cannabis after he was caught in a fight with a gang with a baseball bat.
Large crowd watches as Chinese drug dealers sentenced to death during open trial
Video emerges on Chinese social media of three drug dealers being sentenced to death by open court as 1,000 people watch.
South Carolina has no drugs left to execute Death Row cop killer
Bobby Wayne Stone was sentenced to death for murder and first degree burglary in South Carolina. But the state does not have the required drugs to carry out a lethal injection.
Ex-SAS pilot threw £2.5m worth of cocaine from plane for three men waiting below
Belgian Rudi Sels piloted a light aircraft that dropped cocaine in plastic barrels over Kent while accomplices Jonathan Hart, Michael Mealing and Andrew Barrett waited below.
This 'Hallucination Machine' will let you experience what it's like to take magic mushrooms
A team of scientists in the UK say they have built a machine that can allow people to hallucinate without taking potentially dangerous drugs like magic mushrooms.
Toddlers abused, molested and injected with drugs at a kindergarten in Beijing
The nursery, which is a branch of the well-known RYB Education chain, said it "deeply apologises" for the matter.
How dangerous is crack cocaine?
After a relative reduction in use, the drug is making a worrying comeback, according to recent reports.
Teens win $3m settlement after intrusive drug searches on 900 high school students
Nine students from Worth County High School brought a class action suit against Worth County Sheriff's Office after the mass drug searches in April 2017.
Brits arrested in Spain after police seize 1,200kg cocaine - plus a marijuana plantation
The seizure was one of the largest on Spanish soil, authorities said, adding that a marijuana plantation was also discovered.
America's opioid crisis: How the strength of prescription drugs created a public health emergency
Donald Trump recently declared the opiate crisis in the US a public health emergency - but how did America get hooked in the first place?
Barmaid caught hiding £1.6m of drugs after 'grenade' falls off wardrobe and explodes
Tina Knight was found with a huge haul of drugs that included 158kg of amphetamines worth £1.5m and just under 1kg of cocaine worth around £100,000 on the street.
Serial killer Rose West's nephew, abducted and raped girl, 12, after giving her cocaine and cannabis
Rose West's nephew, Steven Letts, 39, plied the girl with cocaine, cannabis and vodka after meeting her in Gloucester city centre on 6 March this year.
YouTube under fire for featuring programme that shows Dutch presenters taking MDMA and cocaine
YouTube accused of "glamorising drug-taking" by screening Drugslab which shows Dutch presenters Nellie Benner, Bastiaan Rosman, and Rens Polman taking cocaine, MDMA and LSD.
Italian mafia and Isis collaborate to traffic drugs: Millions of opioid tablets bound for Libya seized
Italian police have seized more than 24 million opioid tablets destined for Isis militants who were planning to sell them at a profit to finance terrorism.
High school students hospitalised after eating drug-laced gummy bears
Six high school students were hospitalised after eating gummy bears laced with psychoactive drugs handed out on campus in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Italy says Rastafarians can smoke marijuana - so long as they use it for prayer
An Italian court threw out a drugs charge made against a Rastafarian after he claimed the drug was used for 'spiritual' ceremonies.
Alcohol may increase compulsive cocaine use, according to rat study
Rats who were given alcohol for 10 days prior to being offered cocaine continued consuming the stimulant, despite being given an electric shock when they did so.
Canberra man sexually assaults 4 teenage girls after befriending them at bus stop
Sunil Premanath Batagoda admitted to gaining trust of the four teenagers by driving them to parties and buying them alcohol and drugs, before raping them in his home.
Boy, 16, dies of suspected overdose after taking pink 'ecstasy' pill at Halloween rave
A 16-year-old boy died of a suspected overdose after taking a pink 'ecstasy' pill at a Halloween rave in Gwytherin, North Wales. Police are warning others against taking the pill.
One million doses of fentanyl seized in New York enough to kill 'hundreds of thousands'
Corey Robinson, 24, Thomas Moore, 41, and Daequane Rickenbacker, 25, were arrested on Long Island on Saturday allegedly in possession of 750 grams of fentanyl.
British Navy servicemen test positive for cocaine while manning nuclear-armed submarine
Nine Royal Navy servicemen have tested positive for cocaine use while on duty on board the HMS Vigilant, a submarine armed with up to eight Trident nuclear missiles.