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Ewan McGregor says he considered doing heroin as part of Trainspotting research

EWAN McGregor has said he considered doing heroin for his role as drug user Renton in Trainspotting.

The National (Scotland)

Two held by Gujarat ATS in Punjab heroin haul case

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has detained two men from Kutch district for their alleged involvement in receiving and transporting 38 kg of heroin, seized by the Punjab police a few days back, an official said on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Young mum-of-four turned to sex work to fund £200-a-day heroin habit

Jade Taylor-Harrison, a mum to four children from Chell Heath in Stoke-on-Trent, was caught red handed selling drugs and she confessed to using heroin daily and funding her habit through prostitution

Daily Mirror

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'Thailand a narcotics transit hub'

The recent arrest of a Chinese couple allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand highlights how the country has become a narcotics transit hub, according to the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB).

Bangkok Post

Man, 27, jailed for supplying heroin and crack cocaine

Jordan Bassey-Smith, from Toxteth was sentenced to five years in prison

Liverpool Echo

Sisters who dealt MDMA, heroin and cocaine must pay back £300,000 laundered through salon

Shazia Din, 44, and her older sister Abia Din, 47, led a Bury-based crime group in Greater Manchester - with the sisters using beauty business - The Beauty Booth - to launder dirty money made from vast profits, police said

Daily Mirror

Sisters caught dealing MDMA, heroin and cocaine are ordered to pay back £300,000 - after laundering huge profits through 'beauty business'

Police have revealed £730k has now been confiscated from conspirators in a cross-Pennine drugs racket

Manchester Evening News

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Mother's plea to save others from the drug spiral that killed her son

The spiralling toll of overdose deaths across Melbourne has fuelled calls for a second injecting facility to open in the city's CBD.

ABC News

Heroin and cocaine delivered quicker than pizza in Greater Manchester reveals ex addict

SPECIAL REPORT: The number of drug-related deaths in Greater Manchester is creeping up year by year. Helena Vesty finds out why 'it's quicker to get drugs delivered than a pizza', how addiction in lockdown led one man to steal thousands from his employer and why some people may not admit…

Manchester Evening News

Heroin dealer in Airbnb caught trying to flush drugs phone down toilet

A judge said it was clear Jack Finn and Ryan Sexon had travelled to Swansea "for one reason and one reason only" - to peddle Class A drugs on the streets of the city.

Wales Online

Six members of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria gang arrested in Punjab

AMRITSAR: Amritsar (rural) police arrested six members of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria group and recovered 5 different weapons, 1.5 kg of heroin, and around Rs 9 lakh drug money from their possession on Monday.

The Times of India

Arvind Kejriwal slams Gujarat govt for drug smuggling in state

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday slammed the Gujarat government for the smuggling of drugs in the state.

The Times of India

'I was pregnant in prison with child killers and was terrified of giving birth in my cell'

"Just being in that cell, what a thing to have to say my child when she's grown up, 'oh yeah you were born in a cell'"

Manchester Evening News

As the ACT prepares to decriminalise most drugs, experiences from Portugal and Oregon offer contrasting lessons

Portugal and the US offer contrasting lessons in what might unfold in Canberra when it decriminalises hard drugs, and police remain split on whether the plan will work.

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Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer crashed his car into a tree after driving wrong way over roundabout

Thousands of pounds of heroin and crack cocaine seized from county lines operation

Manchester Evening News

Drugs baron ran business behind bars while partner in crime lived luxury lifestyle - seven people have been jailed

Convicted drugs trafficker David Mulligan and Remi Merriman are behind bars - along with five others

The Hindu

NIA arrests two key accused in 3,000-kg Mundra heroin seizure case

One of them smuggled drugs on the Indian side, sold it to domestic traffickers and routed the proceeds to the kingpin in Afghanistan

ABC News

Melbourne man uses painting to forge path back from addiction

At the peak of his addiction Chris Ellis was smoking ice and then topping the high with anything he could get his hands on cocaine, ecstasy, GHB or even smoking heroin.

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Manchester Evening News

Drugs boss who peddled cocaine and heroin across Greater Manchester caught out by WhatsApp messages

Remi Merriman was the leader of the organised crime group who trafficked cocaine and heroin throughout the region

Bristol Post

From Big Brother to jail: How Marco Pierre White junior finally ended up in a prison cell

From a good start in life to heroin addiction from the age of 18

Bangkok Post

Chinese couple arrested for mailing heroin to Australia

A Chinese couple have been arrested after 4 kilogrammes of heroin were found inside a parcel they mailed to Australia from Thailand.

Liverpool Echo

Man to appear in court over heroin and cocaine charges

The 44-year-old was arrested as part of the ongoing EncroChat crackdown

Daily Mirror

Chef Marco Pierre White's son jailed for multiple thefts and possessing drugs

Former Big Brother housemate and son of top chef Marco Pierre White has been jailed after a shoplifting spree and possessing a knife and heroin

The Guardian - AU

Fentanyl seizure: experts warn potent drug could rapidly emerge as a problem in Australia

Experts say news of record haul of more than 11kg of the opioid drug, found in February, should have been announced sooner

Liverpool Echo

Woman found with 'numerous' wraps of heroin after police search

£1,000 in cash was also recovered

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