A senior member of the Home Office’s drugs advisory panel has quit, claiming political interference is undermining its independence. Professor Alex Stevens, who worked on the Advisory Council on the
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A record number of people took Class A drugs in the last year amid a rise in the use of cocaine and ecstasy, according to official figures. The Home Office
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Drug-related deaths in Wales are at their highest levels on record, according to a new report. Public Health Wales revealed the number of people dying from drug poisoning has increased
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Local authorities are unwittingly acting as “recruiting sergeants” for county lines drugs gangs by sending vulnerable children to live miles away from home, MPs have warned. An inquiry by the
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Russell Brand will host a night of solo performance about mental health. The actor and comedian will compere Cracked, a string of one-off monologues and spoken word pieces focusing on
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Six people have been arrested after a yacht believed to be carrying cocaine with an estimated street value of £60 million was seized off the Welsh coast. Investigators from the
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Every year since 2013, the UK’s Office for National Statistics has reported an increase in drug-related deaths in England. Last year, we reported that drugs had overtaken traffic accidents as
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Nearly a quarter of a prison’s inmates failed random drug tests, according to a report. Some 22% of prisoners tested positive during mandatory screening at HMP Elmley, inspectors found during
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid has been urged by a group of cross-party MPs and peers to sanction drug consumption rooms. Tory Crispin Blunt, Labour’s Jeff Smith and crossbench peer Baroness
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Politicians and medics are calling for an urgent overhaul of drug policy after new figures indicated Scotland’s drugs deaths are at their worst level since records began, with the highest
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