The Latest Breaking News from Heroin

Dean Gorst from Liverpool was allowed to sell crack and heroin from the home of Leanne Beneke in Widnes.

Hakeem Hussain, seven, died alone in Birmingham garden having asthma attack after his mother smoked heroin

Jade Taylor-Harrison, a mum to four children from Chell Heath in Stoke-on-Trent, was caught red handed selling drugs and she confessed to using heroin daily and funding her habit through prostitution

The recent arrest of a Chinese couple allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand highlights how the country has become a narcotics transit hub, according to the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB).

Jordan Bassey-Smith, from Toxteth was sentenced to five years in prison

Shazia Din, 44, and her older sister Abia Din, 47, led a Bury-based crime group in Greater Manchester - with the sisters using beauty business - The Beauty Booth - to launder dirty money made from vast profits, police said

Police have revealed £730k has now been confiscated from conspirators in a cross-Pennine drugs racket

The spiralling toll of overdose deaths across Melbourne has fuelled calls for a second injecting facility to open in the city's CBD.

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