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Methamphetamine (crystal meth)

June 2024

  • Guardia Civil officer kneeling in front of lab equipment

    Spanish police arrest 10 after discovery of ‘highly sophisticated’ meth lab

    Mobile facility found near Barcelona was capable of producing 10kg of drug a day, say police, who seized 70kg

May 2024

  • A person holds a packaged NARCAN naloxone nasal spray

    More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

    Sobering figure obscures the fact that the number of overdose deaths in the US declined for the first time since 2018

February 2024

  • Ambulance in New South Wales

    NSW Health warns of opioid risk after people took heroin thinking it was cocaine or methamphetamine

  • Middle-aged Native man wearing baseball cap and red plaid collared shirt holds open small zip-up bag stocked with small, plastic-wrapped supplies. Behind him, another man sits on the lip of the open back of the van, with his arms crossed over one leg, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

    ‘We hold you sacred’: how a mobile drug unit is fighting the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation

December 2023

  • A man holds a piece of foil containing fentanyl in San Francisco.

    San Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanyl

    Experts warn new and troubling trend is emerging: more victims are found to have consumed both fentanyl and methamphetamine

November 2023

  • MYANMAR-DRUGS-CRIME<br>A burning pile of seized illegal methamphetamine is seen during a destruction ceremony to mark the "International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking" in Yangon on June 26, 2023. Myanmar junta authorities said they torched almost half a billion dollars worth of illegal drugs on June 26, 2023, but warned they were failing to stop a surge in production and trafficking of narcotics. (Photo by SAI Aung MAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘The country, the whole region, is being flooded’: tracking meth to Australia

    From Myanmar to Brisbane, journalist Conor Woodman followed the drug from origin to end users. He answers 10 questions about what he found

October 2023

  • A glass vial with a white label saying "fentanyl" alongside a syringe with an orange tip and many white pills, on a white marble counter.

    US announces sanctions against 14 foreign companies for importing fentanyl

    Officials said indictments against Chinese and Canadian firms target a ‘major China-based syndicate’ trafficking the opiate

April 2023

  • Liquid meth is recovered by smugglers who extract water and return the drugs to its crystal form

    Mexican navy seizes tequila bottles containing nearly 10 tons of liquid meth

    Intercepted over the weekend, the 11,520 bottles were bound for export before sniffer dogs alerted the authorities to the liquid

March 2023

  • Five alleged criminal syndicate members are accused of orchestrating a ‘black flight’ from Papua New Guinea to Australia with 52kg of methamphetamine on board.

    Five NSW men charged after methamphetamine worth $15m allegedly found on ‘black flight’ from PNG

    Plane intercepted at airstrip in rural Queensland after police allege aircraft was flown under the radar with 52kg of meth on board

August 2022

  • Mark Speakman speaking to the media, with the NSW premier Dominic Perrottet in the background

    NSW attorney general ‘disappointed’ by own government’s lack of action over ice report

    Mark Speakman says he’s spent ‘hundreds of hours’ trying to get cabinet support for reforms from Howard inquiry

March 2022

  • Andrea Simmons, CEO of Australian Anti-Ice Campaign.Queensland. Australia

    The rural network
    ‘I needed ice like I needed air’: meth use is still rampant in regional Australia

    Study finds methamphetamine the most consumed illicit drug nationwide – and the problem is worse outside the cities

February 2022

  • Lenka: a portrait of methamphetamine addiction in the Czech Republic – video

  • A still from the Guardian Documentary, Lenka

    Lenka: a portrait of methamphetamine addiction in the Czech Republic – documentary

January 2022

  • man's hands hold framed photo

    ‘The deadliest drug we’ve ever known’: author Sam Quinones on how fentanyl saturated the US

    In his new book, Quinones investigates how the explosion of synthetic drugs spurred an ‘epidemic of addiction’

December 2021

  • Oscar Quine

    I was told the 12 steps would cure my addiction. Why did I end up feeling more broken?

    In this quasi-religious programme, ‘working the steps’ is the remedy for any problem, but for me the cracks soon started to show

May 2020

  • A portrait photo of Esther, member of Women Pat Jasan, that have been fighting the drug problems in the area’s 22 villages since 2012 at Mone Paw village , Muse Township, Northern Myanmar.

    ‘They're fearless’: the women battling to free Myanmar from meth

    From jungle stakeouts to burning drug dealers’ property, a group of mothers is willing to do whatever it takes to free their community from addiction

February 2020

  • Commission of Inquiry Professor Dan Howard speaks during Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’ in Sydney

    Letting Australians get drugs from a doctor rather than a dealer will save lives

    Matt Noffs
    The regulation of all drugs is not utopia – it’s a pragmatic way to take control of the situation

September 2019

  • A prison fence

    Calls for needle exchange program in NSW jails amid rising illicit drug use

    New South Wales ice inquiry hears that corrections department has no ‘overall strategy’ to deal with drug use in ballooning prison population

July 2019

  • Van carrying 273kg of ice crashes into a stationary police car in Sydney

    Van carrying 270kg of 'ice' worth $200m crashes into parked police cars in Sydney

  • Tennessee police are warning residents to stop flushing drugs into the sewage system because it could possibly be ingested by the alligators that live there.

    ‘Don’t flush your drugs m’kay’: police warn of the possibility of ‘meth-gators’

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