Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez today awarded the Order of Merit to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart for her effort...
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Hong Kong police operation to combat organised crime
Officers of Police Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB), together with the Financial Investigations Division of Narcotics Bureau and Crime...
Ecstasy may cause memory problems
Light use of the club drug Ecstasy may cause subtle memory deficits. People who popped just three Ecstasy tablets a...
Kenyans see the Italian mafia’s hand in worsening drug trade
Italian migrants started moving to the sunny Kenyan coast in the 1980s, but now locals say the country’s infamous criminal...
New Zealand: Cannabis involved in motorcycle crash
A man who was unlicensed, high on cannabis and not wearing a helmet died from severe head injuries when the...
Students trading sex for drugs or alcohol
Just over two percent of teens in rural schools who have ever tried alcohol, marijuana or other drugs report they...
Colombian cocaine contradictions
A report released this week by the Office of National Drug Control Policy suggests that the Andean country once known...
A semi-professional footballer headed a £1m drugs ring
A semi-professional footballer who lived a Premier League lifestyle while leading a £1m drugs ring has been jailed. Robert Hartshorne,...
Adolescents in substance abuse treatment report using someone else’s medical marijuana
A study published in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...
Australian nurse faces death penalty in Malaysia
Aged care nurse Emma L’Aguille is fighting a drug charge carrying a mandatory death penalty in Malaysia. Further reading