A drug commonly used to treat alcoholics and drug addicts can also treat kleptomaniacsâÄô addiction to shoplifting, a study released Wednesday by the University of Minnesota shows. The study, ...

Ch Insp Marcus Cator of Hampshire Costabulary said: "There have been times where we have been particularly reducing our resources ... problem with shoplifting is a rise in drug addiction which ...

"There has been a massive increase in shoplifting, and the perpetrators are a mixture of organised crime and those that are desperate to feed an addiction," he explained, but the picture is complex.