NACOB Impounds Half A Million Worth of Wee
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has impounded a Kia truck full of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis at Buokono, ...
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K’si: Police Grab 2 Men With Fake 14,000 Cedis
Two men have been arrested in Kumasi for allegedly dealing in fake Ghanaian cedi currency. Police found on them fake ...
Akomadan Youth Using Tramadol As Aphrodisiac
The youth of Akomadan and neighbouring villages in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti region are said to be ...
US Charges 412 People For Health Fraud, Opioid Scams
US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams ...
Opioid Maker Fined $35mn Over Shipments That Fed Addiction Crisis
Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals was fined $35 million Tuesday for supplying and not reporting suspicious massive orders of its highly ...
9 Traders Arrested For Importing and Selling Illegal Drugs
The Ashanti Regional Police Drug Law Enforcement Unit, in partnership with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have arrested nine ...
Opium and Bananas Banned For Hong Kong Military Parade
Opium, umbrellas and fruit were all banned for reporters covering Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to a military parade Friday, ...
Africa’s Highest Cocaine Transit Points
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released her latest report on the transportation and use of ...
Myanmar and Thailand Torch $1 Billion of Seized Drugs
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as ...
Medical Marijuana Woos Four-Legged Fans
It's early morning, just after breakfast, and six-year-old Cayley is wide awake, eagerly anticipating her daily dose of cannabis. The ...
Carrie Fisher Autopsy Reveals Cocaine, Ecstasy
Carrie Fisher had a mixture of drugs including cocaine and ecstasy in her system when she suffered a fatal mid-air ...
An Addict Who ‘lived’ On Drugs For 19 Years
“I was at home taking my last straw of drugs when they came and arrested me”, he said, recounting the ...
Overdoses Are Now the Leading Cause of Death Among Americans Under 50
Overdose deaths are now the leading cause of death among young Americans - killing more in a year than were ...
US Drug Overdose Deaths Soar In 2016
US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 last year as deadly manufactured drugs like fentanyl intensified ...
Golden Triangle Narco-Gangs Churning Out New Highs, UN Warns
Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN's crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 ...
Ohio Sues Five Drugmakers Over Role In Opioid Crisis
The US state of Ohio on Wednesday sued five major producers of prescription opioid medications, accusing them of lying about ...
From CIA Analyst To Beer Historian
She started her career in the shadows working for the CIA, but a historian at a prestigious Washington museum has ...
3 Notorious Kumasi Robbers Arrested
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested three armed robbers said to have been robbing and terrorising residents of Aputuogya ...
In Swedish Asylum Limbo, Young Afghans Turn To Heroin
Beer cans, newspapers drenched in vomit and aluminium foil litters the ground inside a parking garage where young Afghan asylum ...
I Will Flush Out All Criminals – Police Commander
The Central Regional Police Commander, DCOP David Ampah-Bennin, has indicated his preparedness to deal with armed robbers and other miscreants ...