Drug overdoses at Melbourne's Electric Parade music festival have landed more than 20 revellers in hospital.

A drug considered a potential chemical weapon and terrorist threat has been detected in Queensland, sparking an urgent warning from authorities.

Border Patrol agents in Arizona have dismantled an enormous drug catapult that was being used to launch illegal drugs into the United States from Mexico.

COMMENT: We need a return to the anti-drug movies of the 1930s as we fight a new danger destroying families and communities, writes Paul Charman.

People obsessed with having a tan are injecting a drug being illegally imported in to Australia that could slowly kill them.

Northlander jailed for selling drugs often met his young customers at the school boundary.

Twenty people have been arrested after a five-month police operation aimed at preventing the supply of methamphetamine and cannabis.

Scientists have called for a crackdown on doping in chess after it emerged players may be taking performance-enhancing substances.

Mongrel Mob president Rex Timu says P addiction fell from 80 to 10 per cent in his chapter, and has lodged a Waitangi Tribunal claim against 'racist' health policies.

Michala Pyke who plied her four-year-old daughter with drugs before she died was jailed yesterday as shocking social services failures were laid bare.

Two people arrested during a police bust on the Daktory Whangarei cannabis club have been further remanded in custody for bail applications next week.

As money and people flee small-town America, pills and heroin come in.

Students from a top Auckland college escaped suspension from school after being caught using drugs.

The late star even once admitted to doing cocaine on the set of a Star Wars film saying she was desperate to feel different.

The cause of pop star George Michael's death has been revealed, as a report emerges of his secret battle with heroin addiction.

Two people have been arrested after police found a marijuana plant - that was decorated like a Christmas tree.

A former top official at a $266 billion US pension fund allegedly steered $2.9 billion in trades in exchange for drugs and prositutes.

A millionaire businessman who won a battle to keep his name secret was so addicted to cocaine he begged his dealer for a small amount to "keep him going".

The mother of a four-year-old girl who died following alleged child cruelty had told the youngster: "I hate you, you little b*****d", a court heard.

Keith Urban smoked crack cocaine in his drug dealer's bathroom during the height of his addiction.

A new report into alcohol and drug use among police detainees shows a reduction in cannabis and alcohol consumption, while the demand for methamphetamine is on the rise.

Doctors are warning of drugs up to 10,000 times more potent flooding Australia's streets.

A powerful new video released today shows kiwis talking frankly about how methamphetamine, also known as P, affected their lives and what turning points triggered their recovery. Source: Youtube / BUZZED

Cash, methamphetamine, vehicles, synthetic drugs and at least one firearm were seized following a major police bust in Christchurch.

Source: Fox News 8. An American mother is facing charges after she allegedly injected heroin into her three children, calling it "sleep juice" and "feel good medicine."

An epidemic of methamphetamine is ripping communities apart - but the fightback has begun.

A man has been charged with attempting to smuggle almost 200kg of methamphetamine, with an estimated street value of $176 million, into New Zealand.

As a nationwide opioid epidemic raged, DEA investigators went after companies distributing millions of highly addictive pills. Then, their cases ground to a halt.

The streets are 'eerily quiet', but the success of gang Tribal Huk's ultimatum is in dispute.

Two women from high-profile fractured relationships have found solace with Destiny Church.