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.”
Syrian rebels, backed by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), at the end of last month captured a $1.4 million cache of narcotics owned by the terrorist group, including more than 300,000 highly-addictive amphetamine-based Captagon pills known as the “jihadists’ drug,” the alliance announced this week.
Tramadol, the cheap opioid painkiller, is reportedly fueling widespread addiction in Nigeria and promoting the terrorist campaign at the hands of Boko Haram militants, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned this week.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge by a Planned Parenthood affiliate to an Arkansas law restricting how drugs that cause abortion are administered.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized 191 kilograms (420 pounds) of heroin found in a truck entering Bulgaria from Turkey.
Missouri resident Anika Witt was sentenced to two years in prison after a correctional officer discovered a “Kimber .380-cal handgun” hidden in her “vaginal cavity.”
Thousands of foreign gangsters being monitored as organised crime syndicate members have been awarded British citizenship, figures suggest.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albanian police say an Albanian businessman accused of involvement in the trafficking of 613 kilograms (1,350 pounds) of cocaine earlier seized in the country has been arrested in Germany. A statement Friday said that Arber Cekaj,
The office of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte published a list of over 200 elected officials in the country accused of ties to drug trafficking organizations on Monday, urging the public not to vote for them in upcoming elections.
JERUSALEM – Israel spreads drugs in order to destroy Palestinian society, a Palestinian Authority police chief claimed this week.
Venezuelan politician and alleged drug trafficker, Diosdado Cabello, has lost his lawsuit against newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Swedish police have discovered a cache of “war weapons” during a raid in the south of Stockholm that has included automatic rifles, hunting rifles, ammunition, and drugs.
Two deaths among 56 cases of severe bleeding in Chicago, Illinois and surrounding areas have been directly attributed to “Spice,” also known as “K2” or “fake weed.”
Almost 1 million prime-age Americans were dragged out of the 2015 labor force by Chinese-supplied fentanyl, Mexican heroin and U.S-made prescription opioid drugs, says a new report by the American Action Forum, a business-first advocacy group.
First Lady Melania Trump strutted in style on Monday alongside President Donald Trump as she departed the White House for New Hampshire to speak about America’s opioid crisis.
“Ninty percent of the heroin in America comes from our southern border, where eventually the Democrats will agree with us, and we’ll build the wall to keep the damn drugs out,” he said, prompting chants of “build that wall” in the room.
President Donald Trump says his administration will be rolling out a “very, very strong” policy on illegal drugs, including harsh penalties for drug distributors.
President Trump favors a policy that executes major drug dealers to deter the trafficking of drugs across the United States, according to an exclusive report.
Labour MP Keith Vaz has remained active internationally, despite the investigation into footage of him using male prostitutes and discussing Class A drugs being suspended due to alleged ill health.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed that Israel is flooding Palestinian society with a “frightening” amount of drugs that are destroying its youth, footage from a broadcast last week on PA official TV shows.
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula published photos of Wilyat Sinai, the jihadist organization’s Egyptian branch, burning large amounts of drug plants grown by the Sawarkeh tribe, many of whose members fill key roles in the terrorist organization.
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams warned President Donald Trump on Friday not to stop states from legalizing marijuana, warning: “I’m gonna turn on this president faster than anyone has ever turned on him.”
A Pennsylvania inmate who tried to convince the court that the drugs in his rear end did not belong to him lost his appeal last week.
The average American’s life expectancy dropped between 2015 and 2016 as the epidemic of U.S. citizens overdosing on opioids hit a record high of more than 63,000 deaths in 2016.
California’s hospitality industry is cranking up to incorporate the launch of recreational marijuana with premium offerings of cannabis edibles, aphrodisiacs, and a revived drug culture party sound.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte delivered an outrageous, hour-long speech to Philippine citizens in Vietnam Thursday in which he insulted President Obama, the EU, and “white people,” claimed to have threatened to “slap” a United Nations expert, and asserted that he had killed someone as a teenager.
Authorities in several counties near Tallahassee, Florida, have arrested and charged a couple with paying for drugs for the last 13 years by prostituting a child.
