The capture of José Antonio ‘El Marro’ Yépez, a top gangster in violence-stricken Guanajuato state, gives a boost to the president Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , has hailed the capture of one of the country’s most...
Five men have been charged in Australia and another man in Papua New Guinea after the bust A light plane crashes at an illegal airfield outside Port Moresby: the plane is registered to a dead man, there is no pilot, no passengers, no...
Secretive leader of Jalisco New Generation cartel, who seeks treatment for kidney disease, currently seen as ‘public enemy No 1’ One of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords, El Mencho, is reported to have built his own private hospital in the...
DNP is an industrial chemical used in making explosives. If swallowed, it can cause a horrible death – and yet it is still being aggressively marketed to vulnerable people online. By Susan McKay On 11 April 2015, Ella Parry stood beside...
A new Massachusetts study reveals that 29 percent of private post-acute care facilities in the state explicitly discriminated against hospitalized individuals with opioid use disorder, rejecting their referral for admission....
Journalist who chronicled the social and political pressures hovering just beneath Mexico’s surface The journalist Jo Tuckman arrived in Mexico in 2000 to write about the end of seven decades of one-party rule, eager to cover what she...
Human Rights Watch calls on government to do more to protect civilians after at least eight murdered by armed groups Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Drug cartels and rebel groups are imposing their own...
A new study warns pregnant women that if they use marijuana, their child is more likely to suffer sleep problems as much as a decade later. Published in Sleep Health:...
Police in Italy have seized more than 84m fenethylline tablets, weighing 14 tonnes, at the port of Salerno, in what they say is the biggest seizure of amphetamines in the world. Fenethylline is known by some as the 'Isis drug'...
Officers say shipment of 84m Captagon tablets may have been intended to help fund Isis Police in Italy have claimed the biggest seizure of amphetamines in the world, intercepted en route from Syria to European markets where synthetic...
Activists claim young people are deliberately targeted and call for UN to investigate human rights record of Duterte regime At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on...
Ovidio Guzmán was briefly captured in October only to be let go hours later as security was overwhelmed by cartel forces Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , on Friday said he personally ordered the release of one of the...
Carlos Lehder Rivas ran Medellín cartel alongside Pablo Escobar that smuggled cocaine worth billions to the US in 1970s and 80s The man who co-founded the notorious Colombian Medellín drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar has been...
Metin Topuz was accused of links to cleric Fethullah Gülen, blamed for 2016 coup A Turkish court has convicted a local US consulate employee in Istanbul of aiding an armed terrorist organisation and sentenced him to eight years and nine...
My team is seeing ever-younger children being recruited to county lines drugs trade during the pandemic Ever since he was a little kid, 16-year-old Adam* loved gangster movies. The glamour of the lifestyle – the money, the cars, the...
Rafael Caro Quintero, on FBI’s most wanted list for 1985 murder of a federal agent, said he is too old to work and has no pension Rafael Caro Quintero, a fugitive Mexican drug lord who is on the FBI’s most wanted list for the murder of a...
In a new six-year study, the longest ever conducted on video game addiction, researchers found that about 90% of gamers do not play in a way that is harmful or...
Thousands of litres of methyl fentanyl point to ‘unprecedented’ production of opioids in so-called Golden Triangle area Myanmar has made south-east Asia’s largest-ever seizure of synthetic drugs in raids that revealed “unprecedented”...
A new study shows that job skills training for low-income youth does more than help them get better jobs. It makes them significantly less likely to use illicit drugs, even...
New research finds that patients who visited the emergency room for an opioid overdose are 100 times more likely to die by drug overdose in the year after being discharged...
Eighteen people arrested over scheme in which chemists were sent to extract drug from boxes Spanish police have broken up an international gang that smuggled cocaine into Europe from Colombia by impregnating it into the cardboard used in...
Consignments are being moved in bulk across borders as Covid-19 cuts off normal routes, say police Organised crime groups are taking increasingly audacious risks as they attempt to smuggle large quantities of drugs into lockdown Britain,...
From jungle stakeouts to burning drug dealers’ property, a group of mothers is willing to do whatever it takes to free their community from addiction Sister Ester keeps several small plastic bags of colourful methamphetamine – or meth...
Addiction expert says lockdown will be ‘tipping crisis’ for some recreational users Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The coronavirus pandemic could push some recreational drug users into more serious and...
US prosecutors allege ‘El Tigre’ trafficked cocaine on behalf of Honduran president US federal prosecutors have accused the former national police chief of Honduras of trafficking tonnes of cocaine to the US on behalf of the country’s...
New research suggests combining the 12-Step Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program with a different treatment such as cognitive-behavioral therapy can result in a very effective intervention for individuals with alcohol use...
A new study demonstrates that a predictive computer model can identify patients at risk for attempting suicide from patterns in their electronic health records — an average of two years...
New research shows that people with a history of dependence on cannabis are more likely to have some form of mental illness or substance abuse. “Our findings illustrate that for...
Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have discovered that binge drinking in mice decreases when a particular stress-signaling system in the brain is deactivated. The findings are...
A new study finds it’s not clear whether medical marijuana is effective for severe pain. The study found that medical marijuana users who say they have high levels of pain...
More than a quarter of long-term opioid prescriptions in the United States are given to obese people, according to new research. Two new studies from the Boston University School of...
A new study has found that the risk of suicide is highest among youth with epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, substance use, and bipolar disorder. But researchers at Ohio State University Wexner...
More than half of drinkers ages 59 and older had been heavy drinkers at some point in their lifetime, and this is linked to significantly larger waistlines and an increased...
A research team, led by the University of Cincinnati, looked at Ohio Health Department records from 2010 to 2017 to help identify the populations at greatest risk of opioid overdose....
Older children respond more strongly to rewarding experiences and less strongly to negative experiences later in the day, which may lead to poor decision-making at night, according to a new...