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Scotland crime: Drug kingpin extradited from Dubai jailed for six years as EncroChat chats expose network

A convicted drug trafficker, Stephen Jamieson, has been jailed for six years in Scotland after his role in a major organized crime ring was exposed through encrypted messages. Extradited from Dubai, Jamieson coordinated drug supply and financial dealings, including discussions of cocaine and heroin prices. The investigation, part of a…

The Times of India

Wastewater data suggests meth use is at a record high. Here’s why we don’t need to panic

Data from Australia’s wastewater drug monitoring program suggests methamphetamine use (also known as speed, ice or crystal meth) is at a record high. Cocaine is also up. MDMA may be levelling off. Heroin is fluctuating.

The Conversation

Australia’s use of methamphetamine has doubled in a decade, wastewater monitoring reveals

Consumption is at a record high along with that of cocaine, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission figures show

The Guardian - AU

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'His lips were turning blue': New book details Sir Mick Jagger's near-death experience

Sir Mick Jagger almost died after taking heroin in the 1970s, a new book has claimed.

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Operation Gangsta's Paradise in Southern California Leads To Arrest of More Than 40 Mexican Mafia Members

During the April 23 raids, authorities seized four kilograms of fentanyl, 54.4 kilograms of methamphetamine, 0.9 kilogram of heroin, three kilograms of cocaine, 25 firearms and more than $30,000 in cash.

Latin Times

Woman told police ‘rumour’ Noah Donohoe was injected with heroin, inquest hears

The inquest at Belfast Coroner’s Court into Noah’s death, which is being heard with a jury, is in its 12th week.

The Independent UK

Surviving Earth review – bruising portrait of addiction and redemption

Thea Gajić’s debut is an assured, intelligent drama of a father’s endless quest for contentment outside his heroin dependency

The Guardian - UK

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"I went looking for heroin in a subterranean club and approached some guys. I got a severe beating outside instead." Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the painful day that he told his bandmates he was struggling with addiction

"If you'd said my mother had died, I wouldn't have cared less"

Louder

"He went off at the deep end with drugs and I was just beside myself with frustration and depression.” Paramore, Deftones and Tool love them. This album broke them. The story of Failure's Fantastic Planet

Failure tackled substance abuse and bad luck to make a perfect alt-rock album, only to split up a year later

Metal Hammer

Greens more extreme than Reform, says Scottish Tory leader

Russell Findlay highlighted one Greens candidate calling for the abolition of prisons and plans to ‘effectively’ legalise cocaine and heroin.

Evening Standard

Fake pistol deal allegedly triggered doorstep murder

A heroin dealer shotgunned through his screen door was allegedly murdered after ripping off thousands of dollars in a fake firearms deal, a jury has heard.

AAP

Grandpa guilty, not gullible over heroin import plot

A grandfather's claims he was duped after being offered $10 million to import a heroin-lined camp bed from Laos have been roundly rejected by a jury.

AAP

Weight loss jabs’ medicine-cosmetics blurring ‘raises black market drugs risk’

Profit margins from black market sales of medicines can rival cocaine and heroin, MPs were told.

Evening Standard

Meta and YouTube just took a crushing legal blow over tech addiction. At this rehab for addicted teens and adults, it's treated like heroin

A landmark verdict is forcing a legal reckoning over whether tech addiction is real and harmful—even as clients at reSTART describe it as a force that has derailed their lives.

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$10m lured gullible grandpa into heroin plot, jury told

Offered $10 million to bring a camp bed "gift" from Laos to Australia, a grandfather stopped at the airport says he did not know he was carrying illicit drugs.

Louder

"I started shooting up heroin when I was 13. I didn't want to be left out of all the fun." How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records

"I knew how to fail, but I didn’t know how to win"

The Conversation

As Australia’s tobacco wars continue, a NSW heroin drought in 2000 might offer lessons

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced she plans to introduce “Australia’s toughest illicit tobacco laws”, which marks another escalation in the state’s battle against the illicit tobacco trade.

Evening Standard

Gold bar and gold suitcase seized in week-long county lines crackdown - as police make 2,000 arrests

More than 2,000 people arrested as police close 335 ‘drug lines’ suspected of supplying heroin, cocaine, and spice-laced vapes across towns and cities

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'It worked': Billy Idol shares controversial way he finally quit heroin

Billy Idol finally overcame his addiction to heroin when he started smoking crack instead.

Metal Hammer

“I’m not in any way afraid of death." The triumph and tragedy of Nirvana's final album

On February 13, 1993, Nirvana began recording their much-anticipated follow-up to Nevermind. It would be their masterpiece

Euronews

Forensic experts’ new report claims that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered

The untimely demise of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is once again making headlines. More than 30 years since his death, a new forensic report suggests that the rocker’s death may have been a homicide staged as a suicide.

The Guardian - UK

Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought

Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samples

The Guardian - US

‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

Antiheroine, a new film about the musician’s tumultuous life and career, premiered at the festival with some frank admissions but the star not present

Evening Standard

Sir Bob Geldof says he is still haunted by how he told his children Paula Yates had died

The TV presenter and mother-of-four was found dead from a heroin overdose at the age of 41

AAP

Three men charged in 'brazen' $24m drug bust at airport

Federal law enforcement have seized more than 42kg of illicit drugs hidden in the luggage of three alleged drug mules at Sydney Airport.

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