Britain's first drug consumption room opens today in Glasgow in what Scotland's First Minister's branded a "significant step forward" in tackling the country's drug death crisis.
13/01/2025
A British beautician accused of smuggling £15 million worth of cocaine has claimed she was tricked into believing the bags simply contained “cash.”
12/11/2024
The number of people who died in England and Wales after taking cocaine was ten times higher in 2023 than 2022, according to the latest figures.
23/10/2024
West of England Police Forces unite to target drug crime with 117 arrested and more than 400 kilograms of suspected Class A drugs seized in 7-days.
10/10/2024
Health experts have told LBC there has never been a more dangerous time to take illegal drugs.
06/09/2024
Columbia is planning to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a herd owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.
03/11/2023
Cameron Hughes, 23, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail and has been banned from driving for nearly nine years, after killing Bonny Barrow, 15 in the crash.
31/10/2023
Glasgow Labour MSP Paul Sweeney stressed to Tom Swarbrick that safe drug consumption rooms are meant to be a 'non-judgemental space' for both recreational and problematic drug use.
27/09/2023
Drug users will be able to take illicit substances legally in a dedicated room for the first time in the UK.
27/09/2023
The UK is facing a "beyond complicated" crisis in the battle to keep an opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin away from its borders.
03/05/2023
Journalist Peter Hitchens insists that the government's fresh proposal to get hard on drug traffickers and dealers is entirely hot air.
06/12/2021
For the UK to tackle criminality and addiction surrounding the illicit drug industry, lower level drugs like marijuana should be decriminalised.
31/07/2021
The number of drug-related deaths in Scotland has reached a new record level after figures showed they had increased for the seventh consecutive year.
30/07/2021
Over 1,000 people have been arrested and 292 weapons seized in a country-wide crackdown on county lines drugs gangs.
26/05/2021
Almost a tonne of cocaine has been found washed up on the shore in East Essex, the National Crime Agency has said.
25/05/2021
