The UK is the cocaine capital of Europe, the UN said today. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said the UK was Europe's largest cocaine m...
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.
Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.
DivineCaroline | : Bill Browne (View Profile) | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living
With the price of gas, food, and other amenities on the rise we all have been cutting back on the things we normally spend on. Unfortunately one thing...
AP | JESSICA M. PASKO | Posted 07.19.2009 | Home
ALBANY, N.Y. — Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was ordered held on $250,000 bail Thursday after federal authorities ...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs...
BBC NEWS | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
map locator The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks....
AP | Posted 07.16.2009 | Home
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — An 81-year-old man has drawn a five-year sentence for illegally selling the powerful prescription pain reliever OxyContin. R...
Vickie Karp | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Leslie Crocker Snyder is running to be the first woman to be Manhattan District Attorney. Snyder has prosecuted mafia members and drug lords and gang members. She created the first sex crimes unit in the United States, writing the Rape/Shield law that, to this day, saves rape victims from malicious and overly-broad cross-examination.
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — British police charged singer Pete Doherty with drunk driving, drug possession and driving without a valid license or insurance Thursda...
The News | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
At least 41 people were arrested Tuesday, among them 19 police officers, in the largest operation conducted by authorities in the Brazilian state of R...
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.10.2009 | Style
Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?
AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans' death was accidental, caused by a prescription painkiller, a coroner said Tuesday. Clark County C...
AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert has landed the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, where he talks about sex, drugs and his "Idol"...
AP | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment
GENEVA — British singer Pete Doherty was fined by Geneva police for heroin consumption during a flight from London, authorities said Monday. Th...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...
Washington Post | William Booth and Juan Forero | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. ...
LA Times | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Authorities have boosted security at a Guatemala City prison since the arrests of members of the Zetas, a violent drug gang from Mexico....
nytimes.com | KEVIN SACK | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
OCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- A year or so ago, when customers buttonholed the pharmacists at Almand's Drug Store here the questions were invariably about dosin...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago
Marijuana with an estimated street value of roughly $18.5 million was seized by Chicago police during a month-long investigation that also led to four...
AP | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
VIENNA — Austria's health ministry says traces of cocaine have been found in samples of Red Bull Cola energy drinks. Spokeswoman Sigrid Rosenbe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
A newly released report about marijuana potency undermines previous claims by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that the drug's poten...
Tony Newman | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
A new law has been approved allowing doctors to prescribe synthetic heroin to people with long-term drug addictions in an effort to reduce crime, overdose deaths and the spread of HIV.
AP | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
BERLIN — German lawmakers have voted to allow the prescription of synthetic heroin to long-term addicts who fail to respond to other treatments....
Global Post | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
By Ginanne Brownell -- Special to GlobalPost LONDON -- In Europe and North America it's called a k-hole. In Asia it's been dubbed a k-ride. Semant...
The Independent | Posted 07.25.2009 | World