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Jeni Larmour pictures in her kitchen, smiling wearing a red t-shirt.

'The dangers of ketamine are real'

Jeni Larmour, from County Armagh, died after taking ketamine in 2020 as she started university.

Numbered booths with a white chair in each booth. Each one faces a mirrored wall. It is brightly lit.

Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room

The Thistle will open its doors next week after nearly a decade of deadlock over drug laws.

Glasgow & West Scotland

Close up of three booths, with white chairs against a mirrored back wall

Inside the UK's first legal drug consumption room

The Thistle will open its doors next week after nearly a decade of deadlock over drug laws.

Glasgow & West Scotland

'Life-saving' spray reverses woman's overdose

Naloxone is administered by a South Yorkshire Police officer for the first time.

South Yorkshire

A bag of white powder is held in a man's hand.

Advice sought on upgrading ketamine to Class A

Illegal use of the drug reached record levels last year, the Home Office said.

A woman with tied-back blonde hair and a green dress smiles with green mountains behind her

'My daughter died after taking drugs in Thailand'

Rebecca Turner's family say her death after taking drugs in Thailand has "destroyed" them.

Drug-taking equipment, including a needle, lies in packaging on a metal table

First UK drug consumption room to open this month

The facility will allow people to take illegal drugs under medical supervision.

Glasgow & West Scotland

George is wearing a dark coloured hoodie and is sitting in a room at a rehab centre with a TV screen and desk behind him

'Ketamine addiction left me crying in pain'

George started taking the drug recreationally, but has now been left needing bladder surgery.

Custody photographs of Mark Moran with red short hair and Daniel Livingstone with curly brown hair and beard and glasses both wear grey t-shirts

Two jailed for role in £42m cocaine smuggling plot

The two men from Scotland helped land the 524kg of drugs in a dinghy on the East Yorkshire coast.