WITH a major study suggesting that alcohol is causing more harm to society than heroin or crack cocaine, a leading addiction counsellor has called on politicians to end their public relationship with drink.

Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin, ecstasy and crack cocaine, a new study in the UK said today.

A DEADLY new legal high branded Europe’s “crystal meth” has been formulated by chemists ahead of the Government’s ban on legal drugs sold in head shops.

THE family of a 24-year-old woman whose death police have linked to the party drug mephedrone yesterday paid tribute to a “really lovely girl”.

Sacked British government adviser Professor David Nutt today vowed to tell “the truth about drugs” as he launched a breakaway body of “unfettered” scientific colleagues.

A prominent member of the British government’s drugs advisory panel has resigned in protest over the treatment of the committee’s chairman Professor David Nutt.

A “HERBAL high” that mimics the effect of cannabis should be banned, the British Government’s drug adviser has said.

THE British government rejected advice from its own narcotics advisory body yesterday to lower the penalties for possessing the drug ecstasy, raising questions over the relevance of the expert panel.

Taking ecstasy is no worse than riding a horse, the British government’s top drug adviser claimed today.

THE Government’s drugs minister yesterday rejected controversial proposals in Britain to vaccinate children against future drug addiction.