Drug users are turning to fitness trackers to monitor their heart rates while binging on substances such as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, according to a report...
Toronto’s chief medical officer Eileen de Villa has called on the Canadian government to decriminalise the possession of all drugs for personal use. In a report...
Customs officials in Philadelphia have impounded nearly 50kgs of synthetic opioid fentanyl with an estimated street value of $1.7 million. The drugs were discovered by officers...
A British think tank has called on the UK Government to legalise cannabis, arguing that doing so could generate £1 billion (1.32 billion). The Institute of...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned that abuse of prescription drugs is emerging as a significant threat to public health and...
The cultivation of coca leaf in Colombia hit a record high last year, with the amount of land used to grow the plant in the South...
Schoolchildren as young as 10 and their teachers could face mandatory drug tests in the Philippines as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs....
An Argentine drug trafficking gang attempted to take advantage of World Cup fever by smuggling cocaine, crack and cannabis stashed inside fake football trophies. During a...
Police in India have arrested members of a drug smuggling gang who attempted to traffic opium and horse tranquiliser ketamine to Canada in Indian cooking pots....
A bearded French hipster who was arrested when he travelled to the US to participate in a facial hair-growing competition is facing a lengthy prison sentence...
A US-born man who American prosecutors claim rose to become a senior leader of Mexico’s Beltran-Leyva Cartel has been jailed for more than 49 years after...
The availability and potency of cocaine is rising across Europe, according to a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)....