Cocaine

...prostitutes to have sex with him. He told his defence counsel, Jonathan Goldberg QC, that he began taking cocaine three years ago after being introduced to it by a friend. Chalomish said his friend introduced him to his co-accused, Nasir...

In this article: Tel Aviv, Israel, Salford, and England

However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called 'scale of craving', an antisocial personality type and...

In this article: Heroin, Medical advice, Anxiety, University of Santiago de Compostela, and Spain

London, Nov 19 : A rabbi in Britain has been accused of setting up business as a drug dealer and of supplying cocaine to young prostitutes at parties in exchange for sexual favours. Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, 54, bearded and wearing a trilby...

In this article: Times Online, London, and Britain

Chalomish denies two counts of intent to supply the drug A rabbi financed a drug-dealing business and offered cocaine to girls in exchange for sex, a court heard. Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, of Upper Park Road, Salford, rented an apartment...

In this article: Shell, Defendant, and Business partner

Packages of suspected cocaine were found in the accused's body A man stopped at Belfast International Airport had up to GBP30,000 worth of suspected cocaine hidden in his body, Belfast High Court has been told. Prosecutors said seven...

In this article: Northern Ireland, UK Borders Agency, Guinea-Bissau, Belfast, and Belfast International Airport

The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela. Alexandre Schmidt from the UN drugs agency told the BBC that the plane could have carried up to 10...

In this article: UN, West Africa, Climate change, Venezuela, Gao, Latin America, and Europe

A Boeing being used to haul cocaine crashed in Mali this month, the first time the United Nations has heard of such a large plane moving drugs from South America to Africa, a UN official said on Monday. Published: 10:41PM GMT 16 Nov...

In this article: Boeing, Africa, South America, Opium, United Nations, and West Africa

...England and Portugal. Today it is buffeted by another outside force: the $70-billion global cocaine market. As much as a third of the cocaine that moves from South America to Europe every year goes through West Africa. Since 2005,...

In this article: Guinea-Bissau, U.N., South America, Europe, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Bissau, and Austin