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EncroChat dealer ‘Carbonzero’ used car hire company as front to sell heroin and cocaine

The 43-year-old was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court

Liverpool Echo

Tranq: first UK death from the flesh-rotting 'zombie drug' xylazine

The flesh-rotting “zombie drug” xylazine has been wreaking havoc in the US. Now it’s in the UK. A toxicology report showed that a middle-aged man from Solihull, England, died from the effects of xylazine, heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.

The Conversation

Scots dad who was reunited with daughter after beating heroin addiction bids to help others

Barry began using heroin and crack cocaine as he experienced homelessness for six years, in and out of hostels in the city and receiving support from Glasgow City Mission.

Daily Record

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Joe Swash's sister reveals her new 'normal' career 17 years on from EastEnders exit

Shana Swash may be happy with her new career but Joe Swash's little sister has teased a return to EastEnders, almost two decades on Demi Miller leaving the BBC soap following her teen pregnancy and heroin storyline

Daily Mirror

Warning flesh-eating zombie drug could be widespread in UK after first death

It has contributed to an epidemic of drug deaths in the US

Wales Online

Hillary Clinton talks drug addiction, overdose rescue kits in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Robert Banghart’s life was saved by naloxone twice in one evening when he overdosed from heroin.

Tribune News Service

‘Zombie drug’ could be widespread in UK, experts warn

Xylazine is a powerful sedative which has swept across the United States.

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'I used to own a restaurant, now I'm a homeless addict - it could happen to anyone'

Dad-of-four Jamie is a shadow of his former self and ten years after running his thriving business the drugs addict pounds the streets in search of his next heroin fix

Daily Mirror

'My son died 10 years ago from a heroin addiction - I'm still paying off his debts'

Annette Kinahan recalls when gangsters threatened her with a gun and a hammer over her son's debts

Wales Online

'My son died from heroin addiction and I'm still paying his drug debts TEN years on'

John Kinehane, from Tallaght in Dublin, was found dead in the toilet of a pub in Dublin in 2013 and his mother is still paying off his drugs debts a decade on from the tragedy

Daily Mirror

'I’m still paying off my son’s heroin debt - ten years after he died'

The mum has been threatened with a hammer and a gun by debt collectors to pay her son’s drug debts

Dublin Live

Dublin mum tells RTE's Gaelic in the Joy she's still paying dead son's drug debts 10 years on

Annette Kinehane lost her son to heroin addiction ten years ago

Irish Mirror

Leeds ex-restaurant owner now homeless heroin addict warns 'it could happen to anyone'

Jamie, haunted by his demons, admits he 'never managed to get his life back on track' after he lost everything

Leeds Live

BSF intercepts fifth Pakistani drone in four days along International Border in Punjab

The BSF recovered the black-coloured drone, a quadcopter of ‘DJ Matrice 300 RTK’ make, with an attached payload of 2.1 kilogram suspected heroin attached through an iron ring, a force spokesperson said

The Hindu

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WEKU

A new nasal spray to reverse fentanyl and other opioid overdoses gets FDA approval

Liverpool Echo

Prison officers who turned their backs on the law and got put behind bars

These prison officers broke the code of conduct

Al Jazeera

Iran hangs three on drug charges amid criticism

The latest executions were carried out after offenders were reportedly caught with large quantities of heroin.

Wales Online

Young men from London found selling heroin and cocaine from pensioner's flat in Swansea

A judge told Kayon English and Tammam Al-Ziadi they were wasting their youth

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Manchester Evening News

Drugs gang used fake furniture removal firm as cover to smuggle £135m of cocaine, heroin and ketamine into UK

The gang shipped nearly two tons of drugs from Columbia and Europe

Bristol Post

'Much-loved' family man found with cocaine and heroin jailed after 'fourth strike'

Rudolph Garnett had been beset by troubles in his life

Dynamite News

Assam: Karbi Anglong police seize 1.7 kg heroin at Bokolia bypass, 2 held

The Karbi Anglong Police on Friday intercepted a truck at Bokolia bypass and recovered 136 soap cases containing 1.7 kg heroin and arrested two people. Read further on Dynamite News:

Daily Mirror

Gang boss' ex avoids jail by 'skin of her teeth' after driving teens to drug deals

Georgia Burns, 22, was told she had avoided jail time by the "skin of her teeth" for her role in a drugs gang which exploited teenagers in the Greater Manchester and Hull areas

Daily Record

Ex-girlfriend of drug dealer avoids jail despite role in exploiting vulnerable teens

The court heard Georgia Burns clearly knew of the activities between Hull and Manchester and the profits being made through drugs.

The Canberra Times

Woman accused of selling synthetic heroin she allegedly claimed was 'dropping' people

The woman is also accused of organising the theft of hundreds of baby formula tins.

Manchester Evening News

Ex-girlfriend of drugs boss avoids jail by the 'skin of her teeth' for role in gang exploiting vulnerable teens

"If you’re paying them they can’t say no"

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