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Billy Idol nearly died from heroin overdose

Billy Idol has told how he nearly died from a heroin overdose in the 1980s.

BANG Premier

‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State

Poppy cultivation and methamphetamine production has surged in Myanmar amid the country’s grinding civil war.

Al Jazeera

Rising deaths, fake pills, gang violence: How the EU is struggling to cope with illegal drug problem

Europe’s emerging drug threats span everything from fake medicines, cocaine busts, and synthetic weed, according to a new report.

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Paul Danan: Tragic Hollyoaks star was found unresponsive sitting on sofa with TV still on, inquest hears

Paul Danan died of misadventure after taking a cocktail of drugs, coroner rules

Evening Standard

Coroner delivers ruling in inquest into Paul Danan’s death

The Hollyoaks actor and reality TV star was found unresponsive at his home

The Independent UK

Dealer gets 19 years in prison for providing drugs that killed prominent NYC transgender activist

A New York City drug dealer who admitted providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that a killed prominent transgender activist has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison

The Independent UK

Millennial CEO grew up with a heroin addict dad. Now he’s running a multimillion-dollar agency—he got his big break by emailing people he bumped into on the beach

Before his rise in the agency world, Sam Budd was grappling with the trauma of his brother’s death, battling school expulsions, and visiting his homeless father under motorway bridges.

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Barry Keoghan makes honest confession about addiction

Keoghan revealed his mother died when he was 12 years old

The Independent UK

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses

If we want to stop deaths from fentanyl, we must stop the attacks on public health

Salon

Drug-Smuggling Cat? Feline Busted Sneaking Narcotics into Costa Rica Prison

Prison guards at Costa Rica's Pococí Penitentiary found a cat with marijuana and heroin attached to their body.

Latin Times

The kindness of strangers: I was homeless and addicted to heroin. Joanne saved my life

She said, ‘Come and stay at my house. I’ll look after you and we’re going to get you into rehab’

The Guardian - AU

A New Survey Suggests Illicit Opioid Use Is Much More Common Than the Government's Numbers Indicate

The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.

Reason

Over a Million Worth Of 'Hard Narcotics' Seized From Woman Trying To Cross Into Texas

CBP detailed it seized cocaine, meth and heroin from a couple trying to cross into Texas from Mexico

Latin Times

‘It brings out the evilness inside you’ – the ‘horrible’ drug linked to sexual exploitation in a deprived city

IN FOCUS: Ben Bryant spent five months exploring the impact of synthetic stimulant ‘dust’ on Stoke-on-Trent, where women report incidents of rape and users trade sexual acts for the drug

The Independent UK

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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

The Independent UK

Bogota fights heroin overdoses with South America's only supervised drug consumption room

Colombia's capital has South America’s only supervised room for drug use, aimed at reducing harm and preventing overdoses and now a topic of the International Conference on Harm Reduction, which has been taking place since Sunday in Bogota

The Independent UK

RFK Jr. recounts heroin addiction and spiritual awakening, urges focus on prevention and community

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F

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Family grieves mother killed by son in 'act of greed'

The sister of an 82-year-old woman killed by her drug-addicted son has told a court her only sibling was taken in an "act of greed".

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Louder

"He knew something that I didn't know, that nobody knew: that he wouldn't live too long" How Johnny Thunders reached for the stars – then threw it all away

Fiends, lovers and the people who knew him best reveal the man behind Johnny Thunders, New York Doll-turned-junkie poster boy

The Guardian - UK

Treading Water review – hard-hitting drug addiction drama is not for the faint-hearted

A Mancunian in supported housing uses heroin to manage his intrusive thoughts in this well-researched but horribly violent examination of mental health issues

The Guardian - UK

‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman

Louder

How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun

Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

The Independent UK

‘I was a newborn addicted to crystal meth and heroin – no one should have such a tough start to life’

Callum Hesketh spent his first four months in intensive care and had had 24 temporary foster care placements by the age of four

The Independent UK

Drug dealer launches bin bag of cocaine and heroin over fence as police raid home

A drug dealer was caught launching a bin bag full of cocaine and heroin over a fence as police smashed their way into a home in Birmingham.

Dynamite News

Punjab: ANTF arrest drug smuggler with 18kg Heroin worth Rs 126 crore

Chandigarh: In a well-coordinated operation, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) Read further on Dynamite News:

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