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The Fight To Criminalize Opioid Prescribing

Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.

Reason

Mental health workers allowed to keep practising despite sexual relationships, drug use with patients

An ABC investigation has uncovered hundreds of cases of misconduct by health workers, including a psychiatrist who impregnated a patient and another who injected their patient with heroin, yet the medical regulator has allowed them to practise.

ABC News

Granddad caught with £11m of cocaine and heroin hidden inside bags for life

Former taxi driver had huge stash of class A drugs in hidden compartment in white van

Liverpool Echo

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'On, power fat sizes': Texts that led to downfall of 22-year-old criminal

Selim Ahmed profited from vulnerable addicts, said police as he was jailed

Manchester Evening News

Woman caught with £1,000 of crack and heroin in her knickers is jailed

Georgina Grant's co-conspirator was caught red-handed by police selling to white van driver and cyclist

Liverpool Echo

Dealer used his 'big horrible mate' to enforce £100,000 drug debt

'Masked Swan' trafficked up to 123kg of heroin, cocaine and cannabis and saw £15k as small change

Liverpool Echo

Police storm home and catch man red-handed

Daniaal Ghafoor is now beginning a four-year prison sentence

Manchester Evening News

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73 faces and codenames of dozens of EncroChat criminals linked to Merseyside

An overview of the cases linked to the major investigation into the use of communications network EncroChat by the region's underworld

Liverpool Echo

The secret names of the drug lines gangs use to spread misery

County lines drug rings see criminal networks in large cities in England expand their reach into Welsh communities using local drug dealers to bombard customers and organise deals through phone lines with secret names

Wales Online

Multi-million pound drugs gang partied in Las Vegas and blew cash in Harrods

Kingpin also made donations to Catholic churches and a youth club while trafficking huge amounts of heroin and cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Man spared jail until he started talking and the judge changed his mind

A defendant set to walk free managed to talk himself into a prison sentence and it was only his lawyer who saved him

Wales Online

Dealer reported to police by mother after she found class A drugs in his coat pocket

Ahmed Karshe, 20, of Cardiff, was found to be in possession of heroin and crack cocaine worth more than £5,000 as well as £1,200 in cash

Wales Online

Hong Kong bans CBD, with stiff penalties

 A new law criminalising the possession, consumption and selling of cannabidiol (CBD) in Hong Kong came into effect on Wednesday, placing the substance on par with heroin in terms of legal classification.

Bangkok Post

'Middle man' in drug trade identified by pictures of girlfriend's dachshund Dennis

Seized photo album 'The Little Book of Dennis' linked heroin and cocaine trafficker to EncroChat handle

Liverpool Echo

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Leeds Live

Leeds 'ring and bring' drugs gang attacked boys as young as 14 with machetes as they flooded streets with heroin and cocaine

WARNING: Graphic images. Ringleader Marcus Thomas was among those jailed

Liverpool Echo

Schoolboy's Snapchat exposed gang boss directing ruthless heroin ring from prison cell

Wesley Hankin, originally from Wavertree, headed a gang using child drug dealers

Manchester Evening News

Mum found with more than £1,000 of drugs inside her body during police raid

Georgina Grant, 57, will be sentenced later this week

Wales Online

Mum hid £1,600 worth of crack and heroin inside her body

The three defendants will be sentenced later this week

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Daily Record

Health bosses issue warning over new pills that could supercharge Scotland's drug death rate

Public Health Scotland issued the warning on Nitazenes which can be many times stronger than heroin.

Liverpool Echo

Woman hid more than £1,000 of crack inside her body

Mum was found with stash of class A drugs after co-conspirator was caught dealing in white van

Wales Online

County lines drug dealer who posed with guns for photo is jailed

JJ Logan Cross admitted possession of firearms and ammunition and possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply

Nottingham Post

'Arsenal' of loaded guns found in sheds alongside cocaine and heroin

The guns were in a yellow box

Evening Standard

Whatever happened to Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil?

Amy Winehouse’s soulmate. The troubled ex-husband who inspired the singer’s Grammy Award-winning album Back to Black and divorced her to “set her free”. A “junkie” and “hopeless heroin addict” who admitted introducing her to the drug and remains — in the eyes of many fans — the individual responsible for…

WEKU

Opium farming surges in Myanmar since the military coup, the U.N. says

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

The Independent UK

Report: Myanmar opium cultivation surges 33% amid violence

The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power

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