A woman who killed her four-month-old son when she knocked a five-stone television set on to his head while she was high on drink and drugs has been jailed for 15 months.

The challenge faced by the Government in tackling reoffending was underlined today by figures that revealed a further rise in the number of criminals returning to crime.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a teenager believed to have been attacked by a gang wielding swords and knives.

The Colombian government is considering decriminalising the personal use of ecstasy in an effort to curb drug trafficking.

A hairdresser whose death during the final stages of the London Marathon led to more than £1m being donated to charity had taken an amphetamine-like drug which she had bought legally on-line, an inquest heard today.

The family of an armed robber who died after being restrained by customers as he attempted to raid a betting shop said they hold no one responsible for his death.

Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.

The method used to assess which drugs should be recommended for widespread use on the NHS is “flawed”, researchers have said.

A radical new approach in needed urgently to counter the growing threat posed by superbugs resistant to antibiotics, experts have warned.

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One of the biggest ever seizures of liquid cocaine has been made after the drug was detected in juice tins at Gatwick Airport, the UK Border Agency said today.

ACMD says there is not enough evidence to say khat is linked to ill-health, social problems or terror groups

Suggestions that the supply of the herb khat is linked to the funding of terrorist groups operating in east Africa were dismissed out of hand today by the Government’s own drugs advisers.

Warnings have been issued after two sudden deaths that may be linked to contaminated crack cocaine.