George Michael's childhood friend Andros Georgiou has linked the singer's death to drugs. "Hard drugs had been back in his life," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, adding the singer...
South Africa knows it has a huge problem with drink-driving and is considering some tough measures to tackle it. The transport minister recently suggested that drink-driving offenders should face...
A GNA feature by Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA Accra, Jan. 9, GNA - Tramadol hydrochloride is one of the group of medicines called centrally acting analgesics which are used for the relief of moderate...
One of the biggest factors in causing zinc deficiency is high levels of emotional stress. The second most common cause in zinc deficiency is over-exercise. The third most common reason your zinc...
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after...
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia's history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a...
At least 26 people have died and dozens have been left seriously ill after drinking toxic alcohol over Christmas in Punjab in Pakistan, officials say. The dead, 24 Christians and two Muslims,...
At least 26 people have died and dozens have been left seriously ill after drinking toxic alcohol over Christmas in Punjab in Pakistan, officials say. The dead, 24 Christians and two Muslims,...
Operators of drinking spots and pubs in Koforidua are gearing up for high consumption of both alcohol and none alcoholic beverages this festive season. Popular drinking spots such as Daddy’s Bar,...
Vladimir Putin is cracking down on moonshine. The Russian president wants his government to get tough on illegal alcohol sales amid a poisoning crisis in Siberia. Dozens of people died in the Irkutsk...
A fugitive drug lord who plotted to smuggle 400 kilos of cocaine into the UK in frozen Argentinian beef “lived like an African King”. David McDermott, 43, married the daughter of the governor of...
A fugitive drug lord who plotted to smuggle 400 kilos of cocaine into the UK in frozen Argentinian beef “lived like an African King”. David McDermott, 43, married the daughter of the governor of...
David McDermott, the British in-law of the former governor of the Bank of Ghana, has been jailed for 13 years following his extradition from Ghana to the UK earlier this year. McDermott initially...
The number of people in Russia who have died as a result of drinking bath oil has risen from 49 to at least 58, local media has reported. Most of the 37 other people who became ill are still being...
All drinking bars to be shutdown from 6am to 6pm during the elections Member of Parliament for the Yunyoo constituency in Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu has announced an outright ban on sale of...
A 33-year-old tiler has been arrested by the Mile 7 District police for allegedly having in his possession 78 wraps of some powdered substance suspected to be heroin. The suspect, Benjamin Appiah,...
A Kumasi Circuit Court, presided over by Mrs. Mary Nsenkyire, has ordered a man caught with 669.60 grams of marijuana to be held in prison custody. Kofi Nkrumah, alias ‘Kofi French’, 35, is...
Miami Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine in his system when he and two friends were killed in a boat crash last month off Miami Beach, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's office...
Women have all but caught up with men at knocking back alcohol, a global study of drinking habits shows. The analysis of 4 million people, born between 1891 and 2001, showed that men used to be far...
The Netflix drama, Narcos, about the infamous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, cites a shocking statistic on the human cost of the drugs trade. But is it true? Agent Steve Murphy is in an...
