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The 83-year-old man allegedly concealed the heroin inside a black duffle carry-on bag

Usage is soaring both in capital cities and regional areas, new data shows.

The Perth grandmother spends 23 hours a day in a prison cell in Tokyo and is yet to face trial. Prison rules stop her daughter from visiting.

Wayne Jason Wakefield has been released from court after a more serious trafficking charge was dropped.

Yachtsman Rob Lewis was diagnosed with prostate cancer after he woke up on morning in excruciating pain.

Health authorities have warned a white powder sold in Melbourne as cocaine contains a potentially deadly opioid more than 100 times more potent than heroin.

Police allegedly found methylamphetamines in the cabin of the truck that hit multiple cars before ploughing through a church carpark and into a primary school classroom.

Police allegedly found $120,000 in cash and drugs, stolen IDs and a car.

NSW Health is working with other states and territories as part of its investigations. 

Police experts carried out a forensic examination of the property in south-west Sydney.

A weight loss jab has been found to "cure" the disorder.

The new research could revolutionise the way medications such as anesthetics are administered.

The drug has been legal in Maryland since last year afte two-thirds of voters backed the change.

Two boys, aged just 16, have been charged over an alleged assault that left two men critically.

Officers allegedly found a trafficable amount of ecstasy, a small quantity of cash, cocaine and prescription medications.

Men aged between 19 and 56 were charged, some with serious drug trafficking offences.

He has served part of his sentence for his central role in a drug ring.

She's a university-educated business owner with a loving family, but for more than 10 years, this woman carried a dark secret.

The men were seen celebrating when they thought they found the drugs by listening to 'Survivor' by Destiny's Child.

The quantity of meth had potential for an estimated 260,000 individual street deals.

The 36-year-old, alleged to be an unlawful non-citizen, will face court in Melbourne in August.

An industrial solvent is being increasingly linked to sexual assaults and overdoses, police say.

Two men have been jailed for almost two decades for their involvement in the importation of 1.28 tonnes of cocaine into Sydney in 2017.

She was later fined and released after "soft drugs" were found in her bags at Amsterdam airport.

The Spanish-Bolivian dual national is facing a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.

Police are appealing for public help to find those responsible for attempting to smuggle MDMA into Australia.

The Health Minister says they pose too much of a danger for Australians.

A 32-year-old man has been charged with drug, firearms and driving offences.

The rate of emergency department visits for cannabis poisoning in older adults in Canada was significantly higher than that of the pre-legalisation period.

The federal government will provide consular assistance to Gregor Johann Haas after he was arrested in the Philippines over an alleged drug smuggling plot.

The allegations against the 46-year-old could see him face the death penalty.

The trio are scheduled to face court today after being charged with a string of offences.

The purple and grey coloured pill has a punisher skull on the front and is shaped like a pentagon.

Queensland Police said they had seized more than $2.5 million of drugs in the months-long operation.

The charges include trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine, cocaine and 1,4-Butanediol, and three counts of drug possession.

A man jailed for attempting to possess nearly 100 packages of cocaine hidden in a shipping container will face a new trial after winning his appeal.

A massive manhunt has been launched to recapture Mohamed Amra, the reported head of a drugs network.

A man has been charged after the Australian Federal Police and Border Force intercepted 100 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden inside leather sandals.

He confessed to possessing the meth, which was allegedly stashed inside a toothpaste tube.

The man's lawyer is planning to argue his client has been using for four years and should go to rehab instead of jail.

Police were called to the home in the city's south-west shortly after 1am.

It's commonly sold as a powder, tablet or even vape liquid, and it can kill.

A former lawyer has been charged after allegedly trafficking more than 120kg of cocaine hidden in a van transporting frozen chickens.

A 25-year-old man is facing dozens of charges after a raid on a rural property in southern NSW uncovered a raft of allegedly stolen goods including guns, power tools and lizards.

One of the men was at the North Bondi unit when police discovered the body, but what killed her remains a mystery.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

Nitazenes, potent synthetic opioids, have been found in a cluster of 20 overdoses reported in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District

Four alleged international drug couriers, including the suspected ringleader of a transnational drug mule syndicate, have been arrested at Melbourne Airport after 30kg of cocaine - worth an estimated $10 million - was allegedly found in suitcases.

The rooms in the home had allegedly been converted to cater to various stages of drug production, police also alleged.

The bricks have been washing up since December 2023, with the most recent bricks found on April 1.