drug-dealing

She might have taken the "cool mum" thing a little too far.

This is how your mum and dad used to get their pills.

We took a trip to the Essex borough of Thurrock to see how the housing crisis and the "going country" phenomenon is affecting Britain's towns and villages.

In a UK where legal narcotics were tightly regulated, would former dealers move into other areas of crime, or pack it all in?

We spoke to a criminologist who spent four years hanging out with young British-Pakistani dealers in Bradford.

British prisoners told us that spending the festive season locked up is getting worse and worse.

More and more, city gangs are sending young runners out into the sticks to sell crack and heroin. We spoke to dealers, sex workers and police to get a better understanding of how the whole thing works.

We're second only to America when it comes to buying our bits online.

We asked former crims why they chose the locations they chose as bases for committing crime, and if they were motivated by any of the factors the anti-EU brigade say will result in Britain being swamped with ne'er-do-wells.

In US states where weed is popular and partially decriminalised, its illegal status means profit margins are high – good news for dealers.

From prescription pills to weed and LSD, we interviewed four dealers about how selling drugs complicated their lives and relationships.

Stats obtained through a Freedom of Information request show who sells what and where.