Six arrested in Breda in major investigation into drugs labs
Change drug policy or risk more poisoning deaths, UK government warned
Experts call for consumption rooms and wider testing of substances, as number of people dying hits new high Experts in drug addiction have warned the government must take a different approach towards illegal substance use, or risk an increasing number of deaths from drug poisonings. Data published by the Office for National Statistics last week [&h
Arrests in raid against international drug traffickers in Frankfurt
Two suspects from an international drug trafficking ring were arrested in a raid in Frankfurt. The group is said to have used an encrypted platform to communicate – which apparently proved to be their downfall. In a raid against an international drug trafficking ring, police arrested a 50-year-old Ukrainian and a 37-year-old man from North [&
Cocaine users die of heroin overdoses after consuming tainted drugs at Sydney house party
Two others hospitalised, prompting health department to warn ‘heroin and other opioids can be found in cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA’. Two people recently died of heroin overdoses after using what they thought was cocaine at a house party at Glebe in Sydney’s inner west, while another two people were hospitalised, New South Wales auth
Number of drug offences in England and Wales 2002-2023
In 2022/23, there were 177,994 drug offences in England and Wales, compared with 179,215 in the previous year. For the period between 2002/03 and 2022/23 drug offences in England and Wales peaked in 2008/09 when their were over 243,000 of these offences. Since the peak in that year the number of drug offences has declined, […]
More people overdose on party drug 3-MMC
Reports of overdoses of banned designer drug 3-MMC have doubled in the last year, toxicology information centre NVIC has said. The centre fielded a total of 200 calls at an average of four a week from healthcare providers in 2023, double the number of 2022. 3-MMC, also known as meow meow, has become a popular party […]
Dutch drugs smuggler tries to evade police by swimming to shore
Two men, one Dutch and one English, have been charged with drugs smuggling after they were spotted in an inflatable boat carrying 350 kilos of cocaine off the coast of England. The boat with two men and the drugs on board was sighted by coastguard close to the seaside village of Wrentham in Suffolk on Monday. Dut
Drug possession offences spark football arrests rise in England and Wales
Figure includes 200 arrests for possession of class A drugs Football arrests continued to rise last season although the latest increase can be attributed to the addition of drug possession as an offence under the Football Spectators Act, new figures from the Home Office show. There were a total of 2,264 football-related arrests during the […
Street drugs stronger than heroin linked to 54 deaths in UK
Super-strength street drugs more powerful than heroin have been linked to at least 54 deaths in the UK in the last six months, the BBC has been told. The deaths are all linked to synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which experts fear are being manufactured in labs and then imported into the UK from China. However, […]
Heroin death exposes Shetland drugs blight
Police on Shetland have tracked a dramatic rise in heroin seizures and addiction rates. The scale of heroin addiction in Scotland’s remote islands has been exposed by a court case that ended with a man jailed for supplying drugs to a teenage girl who overdosed and died. Megan Chapman, 17, seemed to have shaken her […]