The PM has insisted that he does not agree with the policy, which is supported by the SNP in efforts to reduce drug-related deaths in Scotland

Experts warn potent new substances are making an already deadly crisis more dangerous.

Small businesses pay hidden toll after money-transfer rule change to curb illicit activities near the US-Mexico border

Police say the provision of medicinal cannabis is affecting the illicit cannabis market.

Drug-related arrests in Jersey have dropped since 2022, with police attributing the decline to increased access to legal medicinal cannabis reducing demand for the illicit market.

Scotland's only crisis centre for drug and alcohol addiction is in dispute with its council-owned landlord.

Deputy Gavin St Pier is seeking answers about the scale of prescriptions for medicinal cannabis

Councillors pass motion that paves way to setting up drugs-consumption facility where users can be helped and treated

Data from a new paper shows the number of heroin-related ambulance call-outs dropped from 48 a month to 14 a month in the first five years following the Richmond medically supervised injecting room's ...

The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging.

Eighteen months after Glasgow opened the UK’s first drug consumption room, campaigners say its results make a strong case for opening a second DCR in Edinburgh.

Sky News has filmed drones being used to deliver supplies to inmates. Now we've been inside one of the country's most dysfunctional prisons to find out how they're trying to stop it.

“SOMETIMES, you don’t get what you pay for,” says one self-professed drug user – knowing full well his next hit could be a zombifying, and potentially fatal, contaminated ba…

According to a new report, purity levels have increased almost 50% in the last 13 years

Mounting evidence shows that punitive, coercive approaches to homeless addiction fail to reduce drug use and worsen housing instability.

The British government’s crackdown on 'NOS' may have decreased casual use, but it has caused new health and environmental risks in the process.

The centre officially opened in December 2024 after it secured a temporary 18-month planning permission.

The long read: Two mothers fought British bureaucracy to obtain lifesaving cannabis medicines for their children. But most patients are having to go private – at huge cost

On March 10, at the 69th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, UNAIDS, the UN Development Programme, and the International Network of People who Use Drugs launched a joint guidance note: Decrim...

Politicians Must Stop Mocking a Crisis That Is Killing Tens of Thousands - Anyone's Child -

Police focus on heroin and crack allows criminals to peddle cannabis and MDMA to middle-class users on encrypted messaging apps, Times analysis shows

The 100th suicide prevention bench has been unveiled by charity 'Legend on the Bench' - each carrying details on how to access immediate support.

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A Balmedie paramedic is behind a public-access trial of anti-overdose drug naloxone, which could guard against a coming influx of dangerous synthetic opioids.

Border Force officials made 65 seizures of herbal cannabis that contained 100kg or more.

When he died, police didn’t even call to tell me – a symptom of our indifference to a problem that claims so many lives in the UK. This is what it’s like to know and love a drug addict

New guidance, approved by The National Police Chiefs Council, instructs police officers to treat medicinal cannabis users as "patients first, suspects second".

Commissioner releases statement on toxic drug crisis, calls on government to put politics aside to save lives

The left in Britain has mostly kept shtum about drugs, even though their criminalisation is inextricably linked to several of its key issues. The Green leader is finally breaking the silence, writes K...

Third series of TV drama spiked interest in anti-anxiety drug amid warnings over illicit production of ‘benzos’

Home secretary says PCCs, in England and Wales, were ‘failed experiment’ – and scrapping them will save £100m over this parliament

Met Police accused of discriminatory practices as force remains under scrutiny after strip search of 15-year-old Child Q at school in east London

Budget blow has exploded beyond control

Deaths involving ketamine have increased twenty-fold since 2014, according to research by King’s College London, the University of Hertfordshire and Manchester Metropolitan University.

GENEVA – UN experts* today condemned the extrajudicial execution by the United States of 11 people when it sank a civilian vessel in the Caribbean Sea on 2 September 2025, and three people on another ...

Sheffield doorman Charlie Smith says all security workers should be trained to administer naloxone.

The error - affecting England and Wales - raises concerns about the impact on the government's approach to drug deaths.

Every overdose death is preventable. It's time to end the war on drugs and begin a new chapter.

Ukraine has approved a new National Drug Policy strategy, which aims to improve access to controlled medicines, expand harm reduction programmes, and provide support to marginalized populations.

A major review is under way looking at reforming the island's drug laws.

The number of drug deaths is expected to have dropped slightly, but experts warn that any fall will most likely be a blip.

Portland State University researchers have released the final findings in a three-year project examining the impacts of multiple drug policy shifts including Measure 110 which decriminalized drug poss...

For the 2025 Global Day of Action, thousands took action in 262 cities across 80 countries — demanding policies that ensure access to systems of care and support, not punishment.

Does policing exist just to enforce laws, or is it bigger than that? Presenter Ben Twomey is joined by Matthew Bacon, Senior Criminology Lecturer at Sheffield…

How can it be possible that 7 years have passed

The former Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales has criticised his successor for lack of provision of support for offenders who use drugs.

Discourse on the drug market often centres on the dangers substances pose to our young people

One woman at HMP Styal harmed herself 400 times in one year, inspectors find.