China bans sale of flakka, other synthetic drugs
Confronted with bad publicity and intense pressure from abroad, China has banned the sale of more than 100 synthetic drugs — including alpha-PVP, better known as flakka, a disorienting stimulant that...
View ArticleFormer FIU student faces prison for smuggling Molly from China
David McConnell says he didn’t dream of becoming a drug dealer. After all, he graduated from the collegiate high school at Miami Dade College and nearly completed his business degree as an honors...
View ArticleEcstasy can cause a variety of adverse health effects in users
The reasons why Ana Hick fell seriously ill on the street outside a nightclub and subsequently died have not been confirmed, but deaths in similar circumstances have in the past been linked to the use...
View ArticleParty Drug Primer
, short for 3,4-methylenedioxy-, has its improbable origins as a drug to stop bleeding in 1912. But it fell out of use and didn't gain much attention until the 1970s, when Alexander Shulgin, a former...
View ArticleTwo more held over ecstasy-type drugs after club death
Two more people have been arrested in connection with alleged drug offences as police continue to investigate the death of a teenager at a nightclub. Regane MacColl, 17, died in the early hours of...
View ArticleOxford teenager Martha Fernback post-mortem tests 'inconclusive'
More tests are to be carried out on the body of a teenage girl who suffered a cardiac arrest in an Oxford park after taking a drug thought to be ecstasy. Martha Fernback, 15, from the Oxford area, had...
View ArticleRapist took psychosis-inducing 'bath-salt' drug before bizzare terror rampage...
TAMPA — Charlie Bates, the man who muscled his way into three apartments near the University of South Florida three months ago, sexually assaulted four students and terrorized dozens of others, was...
View ArticleCrash driver: Was late for DUI hearing
Eunjey Cho Staff Eunjey Cho Tonie Rosales Staff Tonie Rosales A Palisade woman said she was running late for a court appearance in Delta on Wednesday afternoon—a hearing related to her impaired-driving...
View ArticleDaryl Gillies jailed for killing Garry Watson in Glasgow
A man who stabbed his friend to death has been jailed for 12 years. Daryl Gillies, 24, attacked 27-year-old Garry Watson at the victim's flat in...
View ArticleCraig Tilbury jailed for Father's Day killing
A helicopter engineer who killed a man with a single punch has been jailed. Craig Tilbury, 25, from Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire, admitted administering the deadly blow to James Simpson on Father's...
View ArticleProtesters rally after Michigan man dies in jail of drug withdrawal
Friends and family of a Michigan man who died naked in a jail cell of drug withdrawal while serving a sentence for a traffic ticket staged a rally on Saturday, as the FBI continued to investigate the...
View ArticleLyndsay Stirling jailed for battering frail OAP in Glasgow home
A former carer who launched a drunken attack on an 80-year-old man in his home after saying, "you're my step-dad", has been jailed for 17 months. Lyndsay Stirling, 28, battered Daniel Martin at his...
View ArticleEmergency services warn Canberra revellers of New Year's Eve drug dangers
Paramedics have urged Canberra's Gen Y revellers to steer clear of potentially lethal concoctions of party drugs as they ring in the new year. The ACT's emergency services will bolster patrols at busy...
View ArticleNMS Labs Launches Testing Solution to Detect Pyrrolidinophenones, a New Group...
WILLOW GROVE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NMS Labs announces the launch of its newest test offering for the latest group of agents to have come to the fore in the rapidly changing Designer Drug arena in the...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash inquiry: What does the report tell us?
A sheriff has issued his findings following the fatal accident inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash, which killed six people in December 2014. Sheriff Beckett's determination is critical in...
View ArticleMan charged with crashing into jail, nearly hitting deputy
A man who authorities say crashed his car into a Florida jail in order to visit some friends apparently got what he...
View ArticleWilliam Jackson jailed for killing Walter Littlejohn in Glasgow
A man who killed his friend while awaiting sentence for an earlier attack on him has been jailed for six years. William Jackson, 51, admitted attacking 56-year-old Walter Littlejohn at his flat in...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash inquiry: What does the report tell us?
A sheriff has issued his findings following the fatal accident inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash, which killed six people in December 2014. Sheriff Beckett's determination is critical in...
View ArticleInmate dies of possible drug overdose in Idaho jail
Boise, Idaho • Authorities say a 29-year-old inmate has died in the Ada County Jail of a possible drug overdose. The Ada County Sheriff’s Office says...
View ArticleMan admits fatally stabbing his father in Glasgow flat
A man is facing a jail term after he admitted fatally stabbing his father. Robert Montgomery, 32, attacked Alan Montgomery during a row at his father's flat in Parnie Street, in Glasgow city centre, on...
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