Vietnam is seeking to ban dancing at karaoke bars in a bid to limit drug use, a draft decree and press reports said. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism posted the proposed ban on its website and invited public comment on the move, its latest attempt to clamp down on illegal behaviour at the popular singing clubs. "The function ...

The top drug adviser apologised Monday for saying that taking the drug ecstasy was no more dangerous than horse riding, after coming under sharp criticism by the interior minister. Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Home Office's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), issued a statement apologising to "those who may have been offended" by his article ...

A man suspected of being one of Israel's most powerful crime bosses is charged with using a Los Angeles gang to distribute a million Ecstasy pills and paying one of the gang's members to kill a man for stealing a large drug shipment. Itzhak ...