カテゴリー: Drugs
Heroin use has risen sharply across the country but in Pretoria, a programme of methadone and support is successfully helping people regain their livesIn the centre of the South African city of Pretoria, dozens of people mill around a dusty patch of la…
Up to 400 people received parcels that could contain the contaminated lolly as police open a criminal investigationA charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed sweets filled with a potentially lethal dose of m…
Antony Blinken speaks at launch of US-led coalition to address synthetic drug threatsWho is responsible for the United States’ opioid epidemic? According to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the culprits are “transnational criminal enterprises…
Drug importer fled UK in 2018 before trial that led to 11-year prison term but was captured at a Bangkok garage in FebruaryAn organised crime boss described as a most wanted fugitive after going on the run in 2018 has been jailed after his extradition …
In wake of children’s cough syrup scandal, an expert says regulatory system is ‘grossly understaffed and underfunctional’About 3% of drugs routinely taken by Indians for ailments such as hypertension, bacterial infections and allergies are “substandard…
Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged despite international pleas to reconsider capital punishment for drugs offencesSingapore has hanged a prisoner for conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international protests and concer…
Recent deaths linked to drugs made in India underline the need for a global framework for quality control and swift cross-border action when things go wrongIn the last six months, there have been four global alerts from the World Health Organization (W…
Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young FilipinosIt was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began t…
Authorities say the haul, which is the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by the country’s law enforcement, was destined for AustraliaNew Zealand authorities have found a record-breaking amount of cocaine floating in international waters, which they…
Conflict and economic hardship force farmers to rely on opium, with poppy cultivation rising by 33% in 2022Production of opium has flourished in Myanmar since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past ye…
Country investigating 206 cases of kidney injury that could be linked to ingredients in liquid medicinesIndonesia has banned the sale of all syrup medicines as it investigates the deaths this year of nearly 100 children, warning that the liquids may co…
Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Scientists observed fewer cases of avian bronchitis and superior meat after chickens given cannabisIt all began when Ong-ard Panyachatiraksa, a farm owner in the north of Thailand who is licensed to grow medicinal cannabis, was wondering what to do wit…
People will be allowed to grow it at home but smoking for recreational purposes is still forbiddenThailand will soon ease its rules on cannabis and allow people to grow the plant at home – but smoking for recreational purposes is still forbidden, and o…