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Are elite sports persons preparing enough for life post retirement? Wasim Akram's case shows they need to

NEW DELHI: Wasim Akram's startling revelation about his cocaine addiction has shown that even the best of the athletes are vulnerable to drug abuse, even more so when they don't plan for life post retirement.

The Times of India

Megan Fox's fetish Halloween costume with 'priest' Machine Gun Kelly slammed by irate fans

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly have been branded 'abhorrent' by incensed fans for their latest controversial Halloween costumes, just hours since the rapper was slammed for sharing a video of him pretending to snort fake lines of cocaine off the actress' bare chest

Daily Mirror

Pakistan icon Wasim Akram on his cocaine addiction and how wife's death made him quit

Wasim Akram has opened up about his struggles with cocaine following his retirement from cricket, with the Pakistan legend revealing he became addicted to the drug

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Wasim Akram reveals he got addicted to cocaine after retirement

NEW DELHI: Pakistan pace great Wasim Akram has revealed he developed a cocaine addiction after his retirement from the game but quit following the death of his first wife in 2009. The 1992 World Cup-winner, who took more than 900 international wickets before retiring in 2003, began using cocaine while…

The Times of India

Royal Navy warship torches boat carrying £24m of cocaine in the Caribbean

More than 400kg of drugs was seized from the vessel, which is believed to have come from South America

Evening Standard

Moment Royal Navy blows up boat caught carrying £24m of cocaine in Caribbean

Royal Navy's Caribbean-based patrol ship HMS Medway is seen sinking a smugglers' boat after 400kg of cocaine valued at around £24 million were seized from the vessel

Daily Mirror

Royal Navy blows up boat after £24m cocaine seizure in Caribbean

Proud Royal Navy commander hails success of operation in the Caribbean

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Royal Navy warship catches boat carrying £24m of cocaine in Caribbean

More than 400kg of drugs was seized from the vessel, which is believed to have come from South America.

The Independent UK

Man who was in and out of jail, drinking and taking cocaine turns his life around and now owns a $25m business

Lewis Raymond Taylor is now unrecognisable from his former self and wants to help others

Wales Online

Dealing gran Carol Dale can not return to Scotswood home where she peddled deadly drugs

Dale was jailed for seven years after being caught with heroin and cocaine worth £35,000 at her council house

Chronicle Live

Northumbria NHS trust sees huge rise in women taking cocaine while pregnant - and they're urged to tell midwife

Cases detecting cocaine in pregnancy at Northumbria Healthcare have risen from just three women in 2017 to 47 in 2021

Chronicle Live

Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents – this course examines what they say about Reagan and the 1980s

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Pensioner, 74, jailed in Portugal for drug smuggling moves to UK to finish prison term

Cocaine smuggler Roger Clarke, 74, left his Lisbon prison just weeks after his wife Susan, 72, died from breast cancer, with the pair jailed after being caught with drugs stitched into their suitcases’ lining

Daily Mirror

Northumberland cocaine dealer who had £86,000 go into his bank caught due to fidgety woman in car

Liam Friar, of Belford, was caught after a woman's car was stopped and her demeanour led to a search

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Vic arrests after cocaine found in chicken

A cocaine-laced frozen chicken truck tried to cross the Hume Freeway, but did not make it to the other side.

Los Angeles Times

Colombia, the world's largest cocaine producer, faces a change in drug policy

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia — The grizzled farmers had come on motorcycles and in pickups from jungle homesteads to a soccer field hours from the nearest town of any consequence.

The Independent UK

Three New Yorkers killed by fentanyl-laced cocaine ordered from delivery service

‘Julia was a driven professional with everything to live for. Never in a billion years would she have touched anything with fentanyl,’ father says

Tribune News Service

Colombian drug dealers’ dirty lawyers caught selling sweetheart deals to avoid US prison

DALLAS – The Colombian cocaine kingpins faced extradition to the U.S. on serious drug trafficking charges and a lifetime in federal prison. They were desperate, wealthy and needed excellent legal advice.

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The Independent UK

Jail for pair who exploited 13-year-old drug mule

A “callous” couple who exploited a 13-year-old boy to run heroin and crack cocaine from London to Kent as part of a county lines drugs operation have been jailed for a total of 12 years.

Liverpool Echo

Murderer, ex-LFC player and teacher among 19 criminals jailed this week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

Daily Mirror

Surgeon who killed lover by putting cocaine on his penis ordered to pay £11k in damages

Andreas David Niederbichler, 46, was jailed in 2018 for the death of Yvonne M who died after performing a sex act on the ex-doctor who had sprinkled cocaine on his penis

Daily Mirror

Hospital admissions on the rise for cocaine users over 60, health experts warn

Over 400 people in their 60s were hospitalised because of their drug use, with some taking cocaine for decades since it became popular in the late 80s

The Independent UK

Two arrested after police seize 1m euros worth of heroin and cocaine in Dublin home

The man and woman detained by gardai are both in their 50s

Irish Mirror

Man arrested and charged in connection with seizure of over €137,000 of suspected heroin and cocaine

The seizure came after gardai from the Tallaght Drugs Unit conducted a search under warrant of a residence in the Tymon Crescent area of Tallaght at around 5.25pm on Friday

Dublin Live

Man arrested and charged after €137,000 worth of heroin and cocaine seized in Tallaght

The search was carried out as part of Operation Tara

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