Heroin

Criminalising drug users 'causing needless deaths'
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Tees
Posted
23 October 2021
Australian police make record $104m heroin seizure
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Australia
Posted
16 October 2021
Nearly three tonnes of heroin seized at India port
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India
Posted
21 September 2021
Four overdoses linked to drugs cutting agent
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Northampton
Posted
7 September 2021
'Fix room' campaigner relapsed after 11 years
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Scotland
Posted
31 August 2021
What's the Taliban's record on opium production?
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Asia
Posted
25 August 2021
Man jailed after £1.7m of heroin found on back seat
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Cambridgeshire
Posted
24 August 2021
Warning after five suspected overdoses in two hours
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
20 August 2021
Six ways to tackle Scotland's drugs crisis
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Glasgow & West Scotland
Posted
30 July 2021
Clinic for heroin addicts to be extended
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Tees
Posted
7 July 2021
Methadone alternative rolled out after jails trial
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Scotland
Posted
7 July 2021
The van helping drug users exchange needles
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Tees
Posted
2 July 2021
Witness History. How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic. Audio, 9 minutes
In the 1990s, the Swiss tried radical new policy ideas, including heroin on prescription
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Witness History. Afghanistan's poppy problem. Audio, 9 minutes
Laila Haidari set up Kabul's first independent drug rehab centre in 2010
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Drug Ship: The Last Voyage of Pong Su. Bonus episode 3: The double agent. Audio, 19 minutes
A human source risks his life by becoming a double agent.
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BBC Sounds
Available for 5 months
Drug antidote spray already saving lives in Wales
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Wales
Posted
8 May 2021
EncroChat drug dealers jailed after network hack
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Nottingham
Posted
23 April 2021
Medical experts back calls for 'safe' drug rooms
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Scotland
Posted
2 March 2021
Truckers jailed after '£3.2m' heroin find at port
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Essex
Posted
19 February 2021
Witness History. Drugs in the Vietnam War. Audio, 9 minutes
How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Scotland's drug death crisis in six charts
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Scotland
Posted
15 December 2020
Scotland's drug deaths rise to new record
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Scotland
Posted
15 December 2020
Drugs tsar says addicts 'neglected and ignored'
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Scotland
Posted
14 December 2020
Police to carry emergency drug overdose spray
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Scotland
Posted
17 November 2020