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Drug dealer rushed to hospital after stashing Kinder egg of crack up his bum

Police spotted 22-year-old cycling around park selling heroin and crack cocaine

Liverpool Echo

The science of love - Luke O'Neill says romance can be as addictive as heroin

The professor of biochemistry says lovers go on such a high that it feels like being on drugs - and it's all part of ensuring the survival of the human race

Irish Mirror

Newcastle dealer caught with drugs worth £88,000 after trying to hide in wheelie bin

Sabbi Miah was caught with large amounts of cocaine, heroin, MDMA and cannabis after trying to evade police in Whitley Bay

Chronicle Live

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Two men seen 'acting suspiciously' by police in Belfast before heroin and cash bust

A large quantity of suspected heroin and cash was discovered on the men

Irish Mirror

Vigilante killers, murderer's mum and shooting gang among 14 crooks jailed this week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

Liverpool Echo

Hippy daze: a survey of the UK drugs scene, 1973

A drug-by-drug guide talked beginners through marijuana, heroin, barbs and speed which was prescribed for weight loss. By Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

A torture gang, killer drink driver and a boasting drug dealer: The people locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A controlling thug who dubbed himself a ‘wife beater’ as well as a drug gang who were caught hiding in people’s gardens have also been caged this week

Manchester Evening News

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'Ground Zero of drugs' where zombie addicts lie in street as heroin and crack made legal

In the province of British Columbia, anyone today and for the next three years caught with 2.5 grams or less of hard drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, crack cocaine and crystal meth will no longer be arrested

Daily Mirror

Dealer 'Masked Swan' unmasked by fingerprints on picture of him holding cannabis

Former DJ used his 'big horrible Serbian mate' to enforce £100,000 as he traded in heroin and cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Family trapped in living hell as home under siege from intimidating drug addicts

EXCLUSIVE: The young family are afraid to leave their home as drug addicts shoot heroin, smoke crack and go to the bathroom right on their doorstep

Dublin Live

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

'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

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Liverpool Echo

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

Manchester Evening News

Police storm home and catch man red-handed

Daniaal Ghafoor is now beginning a four-year prison sentence

Liverpool Echo

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

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Wales Online

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

Liverpool Echo

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

Wales Online

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

Bangkok Post

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.

Liverpool Echo

'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

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

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