Prosecutors in the Netherlands have created a new perfume fragrance as part of a campaign designed to help members of the public recognise when an illegal...
Police in Spain have dismantled an organised criminal gang that impregnated cocaine into plastic pellets before smuggling them to three specialist laboratories in Madrid and Toledo...
A Japanese drugs mule with nearly 250 packages of cocaine concealed inside his body has died on a flight from Bogota in Colombia to Tokyo. Cabin...
Scotland has the highest number of drug-related deaths in Europe, and fatalities linked to the consumption of substances such as heron in the country are on...
Judges in the Netherlands have refused to extradite a suspected British drug smuggler back to the UK owing to fears about the conditions at a prison...
Prison bosses in Ireland are examining how technology can be used to prevent organised criminal gangs using drones to smuggle contraband including drugs into jails. Speaking...
Medical experts have refuted claims from police in the US that handling synthetic opioid fentanyl is making them ill. Law enforcement officers across the county are...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has suggested that synthetic opioid fentanyl could be reclassified as “a weapon of mass destruction”, according to an internal...
A flight attendant who worked for Malaysia Airlines has been jailed for more than five years after being caught attempting to smuggle packages of heroin into...
America’s decades-long war on drugs has helped narcotics cartels spread across Central America, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama (UA)....
Chinese authorities have announced plans to expand the number of fentanyl-like synthetic opioids they class as controlled substances. After coming under pressure from the US government...
Investigators from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Judicial Police of Portugal have arrested 12 people in connection with the discovery 18kgs of cocaine...