An advert for some of the UK's best-known beer brands has been banned for implying that alcohol is linked to social su...

A nightclub owner has been caught selling industrial alcohol often used in antifreeze. Trading standards inspectors...

Nigella Lawson was accused of stashing cocaine in a hollow book to hide her escalating habit, as she told a court she wo...

Drug cheats will face a minimum four-year ban instead of two years after rule changes ratified by the World Anti-Doping ...

Afghanistan's opium production surged to record levels this year, despite international efforts over the past decade to ...

Targeting a specific group of neurons in the brain could help people quit smoking, say scientists. Studies in mice sh...

Many people are unaware of the link between alcohol and cancer, a poll has found. Some 86% of more than 2,000 peopl...

European Union proposals for continent-wide regulation of legal highs would not add any value to the approach already be...

Toronto's City Council has voted overwhelmingly to strip Mayor Rob Ford of some of his powers in the latest attempt to b...

A former chairman of the Co-operative Bank has apologised "to all I have hurt or failed by my actions" after it was repo...