Drugs & Alcohol

Jelly Roll's 41st birthday had him on cloud nine, but the only high he got was from a solid run.

The rapper posted a video on Instagram Thursday, showing him mid-workout ... "I used to drink and do cocaine on my birthday. I used to do codeine and pills on my birthday. Now on my birthday, one of my best friends wakes me up and says, 'Let's go for a f**king run.'"

JR had already worked up a sweat as he jogged alongside his buddy, Cam Hanes.

Jeremy O. Harris, a Tony-nominated playwright and actor, is reportedly in custody in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country ... because customs officials at an airport say they found Ecstasy in his carry-on.

Jeremy was stopped at Naha Airport on Okinawa island after flying in from Taiwan on November 16 ... and he's been detained ever since ... according to Japanese authorities.

Customs officials say officers found 780 milligrams of MDMA in Jeremy's carry-on tote bag ... and he was arrested on suspicion of violating Japan's Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act.

A doctor who pled guilty in connection to Matthew Perry's death found out his fate Wednesday ... the judge sentenced him to 30 months -- about 2.5 years -- in prison.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia -- who pled guilty to 4 counts of distributing ketamine back in July -- received the sentence in an L.A. federal courthouse, the L.A. Times reports. He was taken directly into custody.

In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dropped five other charges ... 3 other ketamine distribution charges and 2 counts of falsifying records.

As you know ... Plasencia prescribed the ketamine which led to Perry falling unconscious and drowning in his hot tub back in 2023.

POORSTACY's baby mama has been arrested ... with cops alleging drug use in the presence of the couple's young child in the days before the rapper's death ... and we're learning she and the kid were in the room when the musician killed himself.

Nicole Grikstas was arrested Saturday hours after POORSTACY -- real name Carlito Milfort -- took his own life ... with cops booking her on a child neglect without causing great bodily harm charge.

According to a Boca Raton Police affidavit -- which cites an interview conducted with Nicole at the police station hours after the rapper was found dead in a hotel room -- cops say Nicole broke down the events leading up to his death by handgun.

12/4 9:28 AM PT -- The footage of the drunken raccoon inside the liquor store was just released ... and ya gotta see it.

Surveillance video shows the raccoon climbing on some liquor boxes before falling to the ground ... and later, the animal is stumbling down an aisle, walking around broken bottles and puddles of booze.

A raccoon broke into a liquor store and ransacked the joint, shattering bottles of liquor and slurping up the booze until it passed out drunk near a toilet and got apprehended.

You might think this is all a tall tale ... but it's actually a true story and it happened at Ashland ABC Store in Hanover County, Virginia.

The mischievous critter did its little breaking and entering routine at the liquor shop over the weekend, falling through one of the ceiling tiles onto the floor, according to the Associated Press.

Tara Reid has filed a police report after she says she was drugged in an Illinois hotel ... and, in it, she says she's willing to prosecute those allegedly involved.

The actress filed the report Tuesday with the Rosemont Police Department ... we got our hands on the document, and it features a lot of the same information Reid relayed to us in the immediate aftermath of the incident.

As we told you ... Reid says she was at a hotel just outside of Chicago late Saturday night when she went down to the bar for a drink ... she says it was crowded with YouTubers.

Tara Reid is explaining why she's convinced someone slipped something into her drink that knocked her out ... and she says she's fortunate she wasn't raped.

The "American Pie" star joined us on "TMZ Live" Monday and took us through her harrowing night in Chicago ... she says her drink was spiked at a hotel bar.

We have video of Tara in a wheelchair in the hotel lobby and on a stretcher on her way to the hospital ... she says folks at the hospital told her she was "drugged."

Tara Reid says she was at a hotel outside of Chicago early Sunday morning, when somebody slipped a drug in her drink and she was rendered unconscious.

We obtained this video, showing Tara splayed out on a stretcher as paramedics took her to a nearby hospital.

Tara tells TMZ ... she checked in to her room at the hotel in Rosemont late Saturday and went downstairs for a cigarette and a drink. She says she went to the bar, ordered a drink and then made her way outside to smoke a cigarette. She tells us she ran into a bunch of YouTubers in the lobby, and one of them went outside with her to smoke.

The walls appear to be closing in on Canadian Olympian turned alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding ... the FBI says one of his top associates has been arrested up north, and is facing charges for cocaine trafficking and money laundering.

Rasheed Pascua Hossain, a 32-year-old from Vancouver, known by the alias "JP Morgan," was taken into custody by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Friday.

Hossain has been a wanted man since October 28, 2025, when a warrant for his arrest was issued in a U.S. federal court in California.

Ryan Wedding is facing new charges in the U.S. after the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned transnational drug kingpin allegedly ordered the killing of a federal witness in Colombia, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Wedding, 44, competed for America's neighbors up north in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, before allegedly turning to a different type of "snow," becoming Canada's largest cocaine dealer (moving over 130k lbs. a year) and controlling "one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world," according to the AG.

In a news conference in D.C. on Wednesday, Bondi, flanked by Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other top officials, outlined new charges against the retired athlete, and the accusations are wild.

Khloé Kardashian is spilling more tea about her messy marriage to Lamar Odom ... saying that in one of her most vulnerable moments, he actually burned her personal journals.

The reality star explained on the "Khloé in Wonderland" podcast that Lamar burned dozens of her journals -- years' worth -- right in front of her, all because he got super paranoid and thought she was writing things down and sending them to the government.

It’s honestly heartbreaking -- Khloé said she was on her knees, sobbing, while he tossed them into the fire ... years of her life just gone, "taken away in a f***ing blink."

Flyysoulja of the Island Boys was going through a drug-induced psychotic episode leading up to his detainment and mental health evaluation in Florida over the weekend ... TMZ has learned.

The rapper told us the psychosis came about after he took "multiple substances like pills."

He recalled, "In the psychosis, I was trying to find something for my hair for hours, and destroyed the home while unknowingly being on Live."

Paris Jackson has a reminder of her drug use back in the day ... because she says it left her with a hole in her nose.

Michael Jackson's daughter hopped on social media over the weekend and revealed she has a perforated septum, which is basically a hole in the cartilage between the nostrils.

Paris says, it's exactly "what you think it's from ... Don't do drugs kids."

Hayley McNeff’s death rocked the bodybuilding community over the summer -- and TMZ’s learned her cause of death was a drug overdose.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security has revealed Hayley’s death was caused by acute intoxication from a deadly mix of heroin, fentanyl, 4-ANPP, cocaine, and norbuprenorphine.

The manner of her death, which occurred back in August, was officially listed as accidental.

Demi Lovato is sober after overdosing on drugs and almost dying years ago, but Tekashi 6ix9ine says she's bound to relapse ... and he's offering a way to make that happen, though he tells TMZ it's just an attempt at "dark humor."

Tekashi was on Andie Elle's podcast when the conversation shifted to former child actors doing drugs.

6ix9ine brought up Demi, who, as we first reported, overdosed on heroin in July 2018.