Haqeem Hussain was jailed for three years and six months for supplying Class A drugs.

Claire Broadbent and Reece Fullard all pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs Three members of an organised crime gang ...

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A monoclonal antibody that targets heroin is effective in blocking the psychoactive and lethal effects of this drug of abuse in mice—offering a new strategy for heroin addiction and overdose treatment ...

Anyone who takes opioids can develop opioid use disorder (OUD), which includes addiction, whether they take prescription opioids or illegal opioids such as heroin. However, treatment and support are ...

As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the world for new treatment options to try and has landed on a counterintuitive method. A ...

Efforts by Purdue Pharma in 2010 to make its blockbuster prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin less prone to abuse did nothing to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths across the nation. In ...

Police investigating a road accident in Ludhiana were shocked to find over 3.6kg of heroin in the victim's bag. The man, who ...

Narcotics officers on Wednesday arrested an alleged drug runner with almost a pound of heroin and over $1,500 in cash, police ...

A new study published in JAMA reports that many more adult Americans are using heroin than 20 years before. Earlier studies have shown a startling sevenfold increase in illnesses and deaths directly ...

The medication naloxone is so effective at saving the lives of opioid overdose victims that some people worry that it might make drug users think heroin and related drugs are no longer risky. But a ...

Two men face felony drug charges after prosecutors alleged they arranged the sale of about a half kilogram of heroin in ...