Bad heroin sparks a series of overdoses
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Larry, a 53-year-old heroin addict, has two cardinal rules: Never shoot up alone, and shoot up only one person at a time. If one overdoses, &quot;you need someone there to bring you back,&quot; he said.
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Drugs charities want to run a bus around Cardiff to let homeless heroin addicts inject themselves.
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Heroin with an estimated street value of Â£12.5m is seized in a raid in the east end of Glasgow.
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A record Afghan opium poppy crop means more will die of heroin overdoses in European cities, the UN warns.
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Deadly and debilitating chlorine gas has been added the arsenal of weapons fueling the explosive insurgency in Iraq with chemical attacks leaving at least 12 dead and more than 200 hospitalized in the past week.
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What in heaven&#39;s name is going on with painkiller drugs? One day, we&#39;re told they&#39;re safe; the next day we&#39;re told they&#39;ll kill us.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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Two women were charged with soaking a longtime homeless drug addict with gasoline and burning her to death after she reported that one of them had robbed her.
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. (antiMUSIC) Medical examiners have found that rapper Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and a prescription pain medication.
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Two people are charged after an incident in which a baby was believed to be suffering from the effects of heroin.
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The United Nations warned nearly 90 countries including the United States and most of Europe on Thursday to prepare for more deaths from heroin overdoses because of surging opium production in Afghanistan.
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By Rusty Marks  rustymarks@wvgazette.com  Tuesday was a bad day to make methamphetamine.  A countywide drug sweep sent at least three people to jail on drug charges.
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Old Dirty Bastard&#39;s death outside a New York studio was ruled an accidental overdose by a medical examiner. The New York City medical examiner&#39;s office said ODB died fromt he effects of combining cocaine wiht Tramadol, a prescription painkiller.
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Banlao, where neighboring Myanmar looms visible in the distance, has become a center of heroin trafficking.
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A âpoisonous cocktailâ of many drugs can interact in dangerous ways and cause side effects that can be far worse than the diseases they are treating.
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People starting treatment with methadone have died and suffered life-threatening side effects, health officials said Monday in warning of the dangers of overdosing on the painkiller.
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The number of people being treated for heroin addiction in Scotland is running at record levels, research finds.