CRACK cocaine has arrived in Scotland's capital on a large scale, police revealed yesterday as they announced details of the "most significant" seizure of the drug in the city.
A TOTAL of 26 soldiers from one Scottish battalion failed recent random drugs tests and have been discharged from the army, a spokesman confirmed yesterday.
THREE-year-old children have become the latest targets in Scotland's battle against illegal drugs. A controversial new scheme will see the anti-drugs message taken into state-funded nurseries for the first time.
'Moral panic' of drug laws isolates users and fuels crime, says report
MOST people who take illegal drugs do not cause any harm to themselves or anyone else, according to a study which calls for the current "crude" ABC classification system be abandoned. The two-year RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs argued that Britain's...
AFGHANISTAN'S opium crop will be used to create legitimate drugs under secret plans being considered by the government, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
CHILD dealers of heroin, cocaine and other banned substances are being arrested at the rate of one every four days in the latest sign that Scotland is in the grip of a drugs epidemic.
VIETNAMESE organised crime is behind a sudden explosion of cannabis cultivation in Scotland in the past year, with more than 40 factories producing £5 million of the drug in the past nine months.
SCOTLAND should have a dedicated Ministry for Drugs and Alcohol to confront head the country's growing addiction crisis, according to a leading academic.