Drug abuse

A DEALER dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” has agreed to plead guilty to supplying the drugs that killed Friends actor Matthew Perry, the US Department of Justice said on Monday.

Organised drug trafficking groups continue to adapt, exploit global crises and target vulnerable populations

[LOS ANGELES] The main doctor charged in connection with the drug overdose of American-Canadian actor and Friends star Matthew Perry is expected to enter a guilty plea in the coming weeks, the US Just...

ONE of two doctors charged in connection with the drug overdose death of Friends star Matthew Perry pleaded guilty in a US court on Wednesday.

A WOMAN allegedly known as the “Ketamine Queen,” who prosecutors say sold Friends actor Matthew Perry the drugs that would kill him, didn’t look very regal when she appeared in a Los Angeles court thi...

ON A chilly night in March, harbour police at Belgium’s Antwerp port nabbed three youths crawling over a barbed-wired fence at one of its quays. A few nights later, two more were caught in the same ar...

CHINESE and American officials held the first meeting of a working group that aims to curb the flow of illegal drugs like fentanyl to the US and the chemicals used to make them.

Germany’s Cabinet passed a contentious Bill on Wednesday (Aug 16) to legalise recreational marijuana use and cultivation, one of the most liberal cannabis laws in Europe that could potentially provide...

THE US has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with running a fentanyl trafficking operation fuelled by Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies, US Attorney General Merrick Garlan...