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DENVER -- About once a month, another of Nicole Richardson‘s friends dies.

CHICAGO -- Justin Pearlman was settling into his latest rehab, a $95-a-day treatment center in Pennsylvania, when the Tribune reached him for an interview about his struggle with heroin addiction.

Shazia Din, 44, and her older sister Abia Din, 47, led a Bury-based crime group in Greater Manchester - with the sisters using beauty business - The Beauty Booth - to launder dirty money made from vast profits, police said

Police have revealed £730k has now been confiscated from conspirators in a cross-Pennine drugs racket

The spiralling toll of overdose deaths across Melbourne has fuelled calls for a second injecting facility to open in the city's CBD.

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A judge said it was clear Jack Finn and Ryan Sexon had travelled to Swansea "for one reason and one reason only" - to peddle Class A drugs on the streets of the city.

"Just being in that cell, what a thing to have to say my child when she's grown up, 'oh yeah you were born in a cell'"

Portugal and the US offer contrasting lessons in what might unfold in Canberra when it decriminalises hard drugs, and police remain split on whether the plan will work.