Sen. Chuck Schumer threatened Thursday to keep a government shutdown running into 2019 unless President Donald Trump gives up on his December push for a border wall. 

A Florida prisoner who smuggled drugs into jail in her vagina has been charged with murder after another inmate overdosed on the illegally imported substance, police say.

The vast majority of Americans oppose reducing penalties and sentences for drug traffickers who have helped fuel the country’s opioid crisis that has now killed than the Vietnam War. 

The legal marijuana industry is celebrating the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday afternoon.

A French court in Marseille has convicted 19 people belonging to a drug selling network that was led by a man who specialised in educating people about drug addiction. The 19 members of the network were handed down sentences of between

Locals in the Italian city of Perugia have called for the government to close “ethnic clubs” in their neighbourhood after claims that they were linked to violence, drugs, and prostitution.

Italian police have arrested three migrant men, two Senegalese and one Nigerian, in connection with the alleged drugging, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Desirée Mariottini.

A damning report has found that Swedish government-run homes for drug addicts are awash with so many drugs that several people have even died from drug-related causes in the last five years while in care.

The United States “needs a bigger stick” to stop the inflow of Chinese-made fentanyl drugs into the United States, Homeland Defense secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Oct. 10. 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the national police to release a report Tuesday accusing seven top members of law enforcement of drug trafficking, allegedly reselling drugs confiscated in raids to turn a profit.

California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom (D) says San Francisco is “too permissive” toward drug use and behavior taking place in the city’s streets. 

A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for trafficking children across the country to make sales in other towns in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.

Police are looking for two women who allegedly drugged and robbed a partygoer at gunpoint, taking $200,000 from him after meeting him in a nightclub in September.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized 712 kilograms (1,566 pounds) of heroin found in two Iranian trucks entering Bulgaria from Turkey.

An Ohio strip club had its liquor license revoked Thursday for allegedly accepting food stamps for lap dances and illegal drugs.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed in a report Wednesday that Colombia produced record yields of cocaine in 2017, a major blow to joint U.S.-Colombian investment in dissuading peasants from harvesting coca leaf and an outcome some conservatives predicted as inevitable to peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The New Jersey couple accused of stealing more than $400,000 from an online fundraiser for a homeless veteran is likely to face charges, according to a lawyer representing the couple.

Three makeshift “crack pipe” vending machines have cropped up in Long Island on Monday, and authorities are investigating to find out how they got there.

A grandfather was fatally stabbed in Michigan on Saturday after trying to convince a man to stop using drugs in front of children, police said.

Eight men have been imprisoned as part of a massive police operation to smash drugs gangs in east London which has seen 50 suspects charged.

Police have welcomed the jailing of a drugs gang behind an “awful explosion” of Class A drugs in Whitechapel as an “incredible result” which will “severely disrupt the supply”.

Swedish authorities claim that organised criminal gangs are actively recruiting newly arrived asylum seekers and using them to commit money laundering and other types of fraud.

Reported drug offences are on the rise in Sweden according to a new report which also claims that children as young as twelve are being forced or lured into dealing.

The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on agricultural projects in Afghanistan, including irrigation canals linked to opium and heroin production.

There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.

City workers in a Wyoming town had to do some “weeding” after a few pranksters planted some pot into the community’s potted plants.

A Pennsylvania mother is in custody after her baby died from drinking drug-laced breast milk, authorities announced Saturday.

A homeless man who became a cause célèbre after dying in an underpass a short distance from Parliament had a place to stay and died from a spice overdose, according to an inquest.

Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.

The Chinese communist regime launched a campaign against illicit drug trafficking Thursday, led by Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s demand Tuesday that authorities create “a path with Chinese characteristics to contain drug-related problems and win the war on drugs in the new era.”