LETTING celebrities get away with drug crimes is sending out the wrong message to “impressionable” young people, a United Nations report warned yesterday.

THE global supply of cocaine remains unchanged despite massive eradication programmes, a UN report has found.

THE United Nations is “particularly worried” about a massive increase in cocaine trafficking through a new trade route, which is being used to flood Europe with the drug.

Patients turning to the internet to get cheap drugs can get almost anything they want, with no questions asked. Paul Kelly finds out just how easy it is to get round the law.

WEST AFRICAN gangs have developed a new cocaine trafficking route into Europe, according to a UN drugs watchdog.

Ireland could be facing a new heroin epidemic with shipments flooding in from Britain, it was claimed tonight.

Minister of State Noel Ahern would not oppose injecting rooms for heroin addicts but would question their location, says Cormac O’Keeffe.

IRELAND faces a flood of cheap heroin following two years of bumper crops of opium poppy in Afghanistan, according to a UN report.