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Addiction Relapse Prevention: Nirvana Pre-Clinical Study Suggests Psilocybin Could Help Heroin Addiction

Nirvana Life Sciences Inc. (CSE: NIRV) is a Canadian-based life sciences company that develops novel therapeutic products derived from psychedelics to produce non-addictive solutions for opioid addiction treatment and ongoing pain management. Nirvana has recently joined forces with Integrative Therapy Discovery (ITD) Labs of Italy.

Benzinga

Lanarkshire pair sentenced after police stumbled on drugs worth more than £6000

Mark Love and Jennifer Armstrong, both 32, given unpaid work for being concerned in the supply of heroin and street valium.

Daily Record

Taliban eradicating Afghanistan's poppy cultivation to wipe out opium and heroin production

The move comes despite farmers fearing their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty.

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Afghan Taliban launch campaign to eradicate poppy crop

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin

The Independent UK

Malaysian drug gang arrests in Victoria

Victoria Police officers have arrested 10 Malaysian nationals over the trafficking of commercial quantities of heroin.

AAP

Heroin supplier launched petrol bomb at bar after refusing him entry

John Kirk, 34, had been barred entry and tried to "take revenge" by throwing a "Molotov cocktail" at door staff.

Liverpool Echo

The drug dealers leading double lives - exposed by their texts

The law enforcement hack of EncroChat has shone a light on the murky criminal underworld

Manchester Evening News

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3 women held with heroin worth Rs 20 crore

BHOPAL: Three women have been arrested by the Narcotics Bureau with heroin worth nearly Rs 20 crore that was smuggled from Thailand to Bengaluru and was being carried to Delhi.

The Times of India

Reputed leader of Mexican drug cartel charged and extradited to Chicago, federal prosecutors announce

CHICAGO — A reputed leader of a notoriously violent Mexican cartel has been extradited to Chicago and arraigned on charges that he trafficked heroin in the Chicago area and sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds to Mexico.

Chicago Tribune

Drug cartel leader ‘El Tomate’ extradited from Mexico, faces federal charges in Chicago

Adan Casarrubias Salgado — also known as “Tomatito,” “Star” and “Silver” — is charged with conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dealer used 'Scouse line' to flood seaside town with heroin and cocaine

Josh Harkins attempted to evade justice and went on the run

Liverpool Echo

Cramlington heroin and crack cocaine dealer jailed for peddling misery

Karl Weatherstone, of Cramlington, has been jailed after a police raid at his home found thousands of pounds of drugs

Chronicle Live

10 members of drug-peddling network arrested

34.89 kg of heroin and ₹5.8 lakh in cash recovered from them

The Hindu

Driver jailed for killing teen pedestrian

A Sydney driver who had a big shot of heroin before fatally crashing into a teenage pedestrian has been jailed for at least four years.

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The Hindu

Cocaine worth over ₹500 crore seized near Mundra Port in Gujarat

A team of DRI officials searched and scanned a container, which had arrived a few days back from Dubai and housed at a Container Freight Station near the port in Mundra.

Liverpool Echo

Downfall of gang who flooded town with crack and heroin from Merseyside

Investigators found the gang were sourcing drugs from Merseyside

The Times of India

Assam: Rs 4 crore heroin seized, one held in Mariani

GUWAHATI: Police on Wednesday seized suspected heroin valued at Rs 4 crore in the international market and arrested one person from Mariani in upper Assam's Jorhat district.

Chicago Sun-Times

Summit police chief charged in bribery plot tied to heroin dealer’s bar

Also indicted this week in the same case was longtime political operative William Mundy, who doubles as Summit’s building inspector and public works director.

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Liverpool Echo

Drug gang leader tells family 'I love you' as he is jailed over cocaine and heroin plot

Levi Roberts' gang was jailed for almost 80 years after they flooded Wrexham with cocaine and heroin

Glasgow Live

Heroin worth £1million stashed inside van driven by helicopter crash survivor on M74

Ex-soldier Gary Cowan was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday along with garage boss John Craig after police uncovered the massive haul inside the vehicle.

Daily Record

Two men face jail after heroin haul in Lanarkshire worth £1m

Both men blamed each other for being involved in supplying the Class A drug

Liverpool Echo

Man, 46, found with knife and heroin in park after police chase

Robert Clancey was jailed for more than seven months

Daily Record

Scots ex-soldier caught driving van with £1m heroin haul on M74 jailed

Gary Cowan, 32, was caught driving back to Scotland with the high-purity stash on the M74 near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in June 2020.

Liverpool Echo

Woman helped 'Scouse Joey' gang make thousands in drug cash

The heroin addict would transfer money to those higher up in the trafficking chain in Liverpool

WEKU

California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."

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