Heroin ‘unchic’
“The over-40s were a legacy from the last recession which saw an epidemic of heroin use.”
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GPs should give teenagers’ health needs a higher priority, the former children’s commissioner for England tells Channel 4 News.
“The over-40s were a legacy from the last recession which saw an epidemic of heroin use.”
Heroin users seeking treatment are getting older, according to new research, but there are fears the UK’s most recent recession could lead to a new generation of addicts.
Ahead of the first live experiment of the effects of MDMA, Channel 4 News examines the drug, its effects and the extent of its use in the UK.
Gary Gibbon takes the air at Nick Clegg’s opening speech at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton.
Police in Venezuela arrest Daniel Barrera, one of Colombia’s most wanted men, who is believed to be part of a gang responsible for smuggling 10 tonnes of cocaine each month to a Mexican drugs cartel.
Illegal drug use is high, cells are overcrowded and up to 30 per cent of inmates wander around aimlessly at an East Yorkshire prison run by G4S, the firm responsible for Olympics security.
Usain Bolt’s victory in the 200m makes him the first to do the “double double” of winning both sprinting distances at two Olympics. But there are other contenders for greatest Olympian of all time.
There is no date set, but that did not stop Ed Miliband campaigning in Corby with a vow to make unemployment the key issue in the by-election to replace Tory MP Louise Mensch.
As a court finds Shafilea Ahmed’s parents guilty of her murder, Channel 4 News correspondent Darshna Soni recalls being invited into their family home – where no trace of Shafilea was on view.
Britain’s only reigning athletics Olympic champion will have to overcome the odds to retain her track and field title in London, but the Newham-raised athlete is no stranger to adversity.
As Chinese gold medal-winning swimmer Ye Shiwen faces accusations that she used banned drugs in the Olympics, Channel 4 News looks at the evidence.
The discussion is not necessarily of ‘total cure’ but a functional cure. That means finding a way that people can live still with the virus but no longer have to take anti-retrovirals drugs.
Channel 4 News profiles Bradley Wiggins, the man who looks set to become the first Englishman to win the legendary Tour de France cycle race.
Russia has one of the fastest growing HIV rates in the world but as Victoria MacDonald reports, its reluctance to use harm reduction programmes among addicts is fuelling the spread of the disease.