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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.

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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

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.

Latin Times

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

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

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F

The Independent UK

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".

AAP

"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

Louder

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

The Guardian - UK

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)

Louder

‘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

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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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Drug cartel exploiting student visas busted in Delhi; Heroin worth over Rs 1 crore seized

Two foreign nationals, identified as Humphrey Muwong (33) from Uganda and Chukwu Ebuka Umeh (36) from Nigeria, have been arrested and 700 grams of high-grade heroin worth over Rs 1 crore has been seized. Read further on Dynamite News:

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“Just so if ever that happens again, I’m like ‘here’s the proof that I wrote it’”: Ed Sheeran reveals that post-copyright cases, he now films every recording session

Plus he responds to TikTokker said his music was like “heroin”

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The Conversation

Animal tranquilizers found in illegal opioids may suppress the lifesaving medication naloxone − and cause more overdose deaths

The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance the user’s euphoric high from opioids, particularly in those who have developed a tolerance to the opioid. But adding the tranquilizers to these already…

The National (Scotland)

Police recover £180,000 of heroin in car as woman charged

A woman has been charged after police recovered heroin worth an estimated £180,000 in a car near Lockerbie ...

The Conversation

Heroin found in cocaine and ‘ice’, and snorting a line can be lethal

Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or methamphetamine.

PC Gamer

Schedule 1 roadmap includes adding a 'classic fishing minigame,' plus parkour and heroin

All the makings of a great weekend.

Dynamite News

Punjab Police arrests smuggler with 15 kg heroin linked to Pakistan, US based syndicate

The arrested accused has been identified as Harshpreet Singh, a resident of Roranwala in Amritsar, said Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Punjab: Police seizes 4.5 kg heroine in Amritsar; Arrests seven drug smugglers

Gaurav Yadav DGP on Thursday said that Police teams intercepted the accused, busting links to an international drug syndicate. Read further on Dynamite News:

Louder

Eddie Vedder releases anguished version of Neil Young classic The Needle And The Damage Done

The Pearl Jam singer's version of Neil Young's song about heroin addiction comes from an upcoming Bridge School benefit compilation

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