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Bikramjit Brar, Hardeep Thind and Purshotam Dhillon: Three Indian-origin men jailed in London for running £174,000 drugs network

In a significant crackdown, authorities have dismantled a large drug trafficking operation in London, orchestrated by incarcerated dealer Hardeep Thind. Three men of Indian descent, including an active magistrate, received prison sentences for their involvement in distributing cocaine and heroin worth £174,000. Following Thind's release, the illegal network expanded, prompting…

The Times of India

Moment magistrate who helped run major London drug dealing operation arrested on bed - as he is jailed for seven years

Purshotam Dhillon, 59, was a serving magistrate when he was a key member of a crime ring selling heroin and crack cocaine

Evening Standard

Myanmar torches $600 million in seized heroin, meth and other drugs

Myanmar authorities have burned more than $600 million worth of seized illegal drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine, marijuana and opium, in nationwide events marking the U.N.’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

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ED arrests prime accused Harpreet Talwar in 3000 kg Mundra port Heroin seizure case

Enforcement Directorate has arrested Harpreet Singh Talwar, a key figure in a money laundering probe linked to a massive heroin seizure at Mundra Port in 2021. Searches at six Delhi locations led to his apprehension. Talwar is accused of facilitating drug smuggling for an international syndicate, receiving goods and cash…

The Economic Times

ED raids Delhi nightclub owner, others in 2021 Mundra port drugs seizure case

The Enforcement Directorate is conducting searches across five locations in Delhi as part of a money laundering probe linked to the massive 2021 Mundra port drug haul. The investigation targets businessman Kabir Talwar and others, focusing on alleged investments of narcotics funds into Delhi nightclubs. This follows a seizure of…

The Economic Times

When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick heroin, the response from Nirvana's frontman was savage

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit, got verbally slapped down

Louder

The over-50s are most likely to overdose. Here’s how older people use drugs

When many of us think about drug overdose, we picture young people at a music festival or people dependent on street heroin.

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Love scam bust nets B25m drugs

Three people, including two Nigerian nationals, were arrested after police uncovered a drug trafficking operation linked to a romance scam. Authorities seized cocaine and heroin worth over 25 million baht.

Bangkok Post

Heroin and phone smugglers caught at Phuket airport

PHUKET - Three smugglers have been caught at Phuket airport - a South African woman taking 16 kilogrammes of heroin to Uganda and two suspected scammers, Uzbeks, bringing 35 mobile phones into Thailand.

Bangkok Post

Second Amendment Roundup: No Protection for Heroin Trafficker

Fifth Circuit reaffirms Rahimi’s “dangerousness” standard in § 922(a)(1) case

Reason

‘Football saved me’: Street Soccer coordinator Sarah Rhind on life after heroin addiction

Sarah Rhind tells Suzanne Wrack how football was her focus as she recovered and how it helped her create ‘beautiful friendships’

The Guardian - UK

Deepfake Turns A Harrowing Eye Towards Personal Identity At Tribeca [EXCLUSIVE CLIP]

Deepfake is premiering at Tribeca this week, and The Mary Sue has an exclusive clip from the new film! Filmmaker Matt Eames is bringing Deepfake to Tribeca on June 6th. In this new feature, Jessica DiGiovanni plays Jane. She is a millennial who after a heroin breakup hires a team…

The Mary Sue

Indian businessman spends 57 days in jail after airport scanner mistakes spice mix for heroin

Petitioner argued that the detection machine, manufactured in Canada, was not calibrated to handle aromatic Indian spices

The Independent UK

Drug smugglers who flooded London's streets with millions of pounds of cocaine jailed for 84 years

More than 300kg of cocaine and more than 60kg of heroin, with an estimated value of almost £8 million pounds, was seized by police

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Bangkok Post

Nigerian romance scammers ‘lured Thai women to distribute heroin’

Police have arrested a Nigerian man and two Thai women with 65.5 kilogrammes of heroin, saying they were linked to a Nigerian romance scam network that lured Thai women to distribute drugs in Thailand.

MusicRadar

“The head of LA’s Mexican mafia was in a cell next to me. He passed me a note and asked for an autograph for his daughter”: The hair-raising adventures of ’90s rock icons Stone Temple Pilots and their doomed singer Scott Weiland

“I could not seem to put more than 30 days of abstinence together”

The Times of India

Scotland crime: Drug kingpin extradited from Dubai jailed for six years as EncroChat chats expose network

A convicted drug trafficker, Stephen Jamieson, has been jailed for six years in Scotland after his role in a major organized crime ring was exposed through encrypted messages. Extradited from Dubai, Jamieson coordinated drug supply and financial dealings, including discussions of cocaine and heroin prices. The investigation, part of a…

The Conversation

Wastewater data suggests meth use is at a record high. Here’s why we don’t need to panic

Data from Australia’s wastewater drug monitoring program suggests methamphetamine use (also known as speed, ice or crystal meth) is at a record high. Cocaine is also up. MDMA may be levelling off. Heroin is fluctuating.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s use of methamphetamine has doubled in a decade, wastewater monitoring reveals

Consumption is at a record high along with that of cocaine, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission figures show

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'His lips were turning blue': New book details Sir Mick Jagger's near-death experience

Sir Mick Jagger almost died after taking heroin in the 1970s, a new book has claimed.

Latin Times

Operation Gangsta's Paradise in Southern California Leads To Arrest of More Than 40 Mexican Mafia Members

During the April 23 raids, authorities seized four kilograms of fentanyl, 54.4 kilograms of methamphetamine, 0.9 kilogram of heroin, three kilograms of cocaine, 25 firearms and more than $30,000 in cash.

The Independent UK

Woman told police ‘rumour’ Noah Donohoe was injected with heroin, inquest hears

The inquest at Belfast Coroner’s Court into Noah’s death, which is being heard with a jury, is in its 12th week.

The Guardian - UK

Surviving Earth review – bruising portrait of addiction and redemption

Thea Gajić’s debut is an assured, intelligent drama of a father’s endless quest for contentment outside his heroin dependency

Louder

"I went looking for heroin in a subterranean club and approached some guys. I got a severe beating outside instead." Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the painful day that he told his bandmates he was struggling with addiction

"If you'd said my mother had died, I wouldn't have cared less"

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"He went off at the deep end with drugs and I was just beside myself with frustration and depression.” Paramore, Deftones and Tool love them. This album broke them. The story of Failure's Fantastic Planet

Failure tackled substance abuse and bad luck to make a perfect alt-rock album, only to split up a year later

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