Melbourne’s alcohol wars are now impossible to ignore. Since February 2025, criminals have struck nearly 20 hospitality venues across the city. They have carried out arson attacks, shootings, and attempted kidnappings at popular bars and nightclubs. Small business owners are bearing the brunt of it, and the industry is rattled. Experts warn the situation echoes...
How Dealers Flood Schools With Spice Vapes Through TikTok Spice vapes in schools are quietly destroying young lives across Britain. A 14-year-old boy from Dagenham spent two weeks in a medically induced coma. His teachers initially thought he was having an asthma attack. His father watched him turn blue and collapse on the living room...
A dangerous new synthetic opioid is causing a rise in cychlorphine deaths across the United Kingdom and the United States. This chemical compound, scientifically known as N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, first appeared in late 2024. Forensic experts in East Tennessee recently confirmed that the drug played a role in 41 fatalities between July 2025 and February 2026....
A little-known veterinary sedative is making its way into the illegal drug supply across the United States, and health authorities are sounding the alarm. Authorities detected medetomidine with increasing frequency in illicit fentanyl, prompting an extraordinary joint advisory from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the White House Office of National Drug...
Health officials across the United States are raising urgent alarms about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid ten times more potent than fentanyl. Forensic centres, addiction specialists and state governments are all sounding the alarm. The drug is spreading fast and the death toll is climbing. The Knox County Regional Forensic Centre in East Tennessee confirmed at...
Kratom Poisoning Reports Surge. Experts Say the Worst May Be Yet to Come. The number of kratom poisoning cases reported to United States poison control centres rose by roughly 1,200% over the past decade, according to new federal health data. Ultra-potent kratom products have since flooded convenience stores, vape shops, and petrol stations, pushing that...
The Pill That Outlasted a Revolution Bashar al-Assad fled Syria in late 2024. Many hoped his departure would end one of the world’s most brazen state-sponsored drug operations. Eighteen months on, the reality is far messier. Syria’s Captagon drug threat has not disappeared. It has fragmented, adapted, and grown more dangerous than before. Captagon is...
Drug gangs running county lines networks have intensified their targeting of vulnerable young people across the Highlands. Workers at Barnardo’s Scotland say children as young as their early teens are being pulled into a web of debt, violence and criminal exploitation that grows harder to escape with every passing week. The warning follows a Scotland-wide...
A veterinary sedative used to tranquillise elephants is now showing up in the illegal drug supply across New York State. Authorities warn the medetomidine overdose crisis is more dangerous than anything they have seen in recent years. Dealers quietly mix this powerful animal sedative into opioid supplies without users’ knowledge, triggering a surge in deaths...
A dangerous cychlorphine opioid is sweeping across Tennessee, and public health officials are raising the alarm. Knox County authorities have now tied it to 16 overdose deaths. The drug spreads fast, combines lethally with other substances, and resists standard reversal treatments. Formally named N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, this new synthetic opioid is up to ten times more...