Drug trafficking in Belgium has reached a breaking point. Senior judges and prosecutors are now warning that cocaine smuggling networks have grown powerful enough to threaten the stability of Belgian society itself. One court president says the criminal money flooding the country is simply overwhelming the system. Bart Willocx, president of the Antwerp court of...
Ketamine Addiction in Teenagers Is Destroying Young Lives. Most Parents Have No Idea. Ketamine addiction in teenagers is now a serious public health crisis in the UK. A hospital in Liverpool has opened the country’s first specialist clinic for young people. Medics warn the situation is escalating fast, and many cases go undetected. Doctors at...
Quebec is heading towards its second consecutive year of more than 600 drug overdose deaths, and those working on the front lines say the province is not doing nearly enough to stop it. The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) recorded a historic 645 confirmed or suspected drug overdose deaths in Quebec in...
In a recent episode of The Dr. Phil Podcast – Latest from Mexico: Cartels Know No Boundaries, Dr. Phil McGraw said what most political commentary won’t: this is not Mexico’s war. It is America’s – and it is being bankrolled from inside American communities. The United States recorded over 110,000 drug poisoning deaths in a...
Here is a number worth sitting with: 316 million people used illicit drugs in 2023. Not a projection. Not a worst-case estimate. The opening finding of the UNODC World Drug Report 2025, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That is roughly 6 per cent of every person on earth aged 15...
One in eight British drinkers wake up with more than just a headache. New figures show a sharp rise in the psychological hangover. This state of alcohol-induced anxiety pushes many people to quit drinking for good. University College London (UCL) led a study of 40,000 UK drinkers. They found that 13.3 per cent of adults...
Families Devastated as Common Medications Linked to Compulsive Gambling and Hypersexuality A BBC investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence about prescription drugs impulse control disorders. Widely prescribed medications cause severe behavioural changes that leave families financially ruined. Additionally, these drugs destroy relationships across Britain. The chair of the Commons Health Committee has now called on the...
A UK coroner has made a landmark ruling that highlights medical cannabis risks after a prescription contributed to the death of a 34-year-old man with a psychiatric disorder. The case raises serious questions about prescribing practices in Britain’s growing private cannabis clinic sector. Oliver Robinson, from Bury in Greater Manchester, was found hanged at his...
The fentanyl epidemic has pushed San Francisco’s coroner’s office to breaking point. During a 24-hour span on 8 August 2023, nine people died from drug overdoses, eight of them from fentanyl. Workers collected eight bodies from flats across the city. Someone found one victim on the street across from City Hall. That month, drugs killed...
A Cumbrian charity supporting people battling addiction has raised the alarm over a worrying synthetic drug threat emerging on Britain’s streets. Workers are witnessing a sharp rise in nitazenes, powerful substances that can be up to 500 times stronger than heroin. The Well, based in Cumbria, currently treats around a quarter of its clients specifically...