We spoke to young people who didn’t know about the risks, even when they reported side effects including brain fog and seizures.
- Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
What exactly is ketamine and what is its role in the treatment of depression?
Some people seek out the herbal drug Kamini to stay awake – but it contains up to 21% morphine so doesn’t have that effect. And dependency can escalate quickly.
A new study has found First Nations people in rural NSW experienced more anxiety and fear about COVID than non-Indigenous people. How did government messaging contribute to this?
Fentanyl has been a prime culprit in the opioid crisis in the United States. It’s now turning up in cocaine and methamphetamine in New South Wales.
Drug slang can help researchers understand drug trends. But if you’re taking a drug called by a street name, make sure you know what it is.
Residential drug rehab programs usually last for around eight weeks and include everything from counselling sessions to household chores, which help build connections and support between residents.
‘Krokodil’ means crocodile in Russian, named as such partly because of the effect it has on users’ skin. But skin infection isn’t the only danger the drug poses.
Quetiapine is an antipsychotic drug to treat severe mental illness, but it makes people feel sleepy, so has also been used as a sleeping pill – by prescription and illicitly.
A new study has found more than half of those in drug treatment have cognitive impairments – meaning treatment won’t work for them.
“Nangs” are cheap, legal and easy to get - but like most drugs, they are also highly dangerous.
At higher doses ketamine is used to induce a trance-like state, sedate people with burns or other traumatic injuries, or as an anaesthetic to perform short operations.
It’s easy to overdose on the recreational drug GHB, as recent cases in Melbourne show.
Thousands of Australians go to residential drug and alcohol rehab programs every year. But is there evidence rehabs, as well as the group therapy they often rely on, actually work?
Amyl nitrite is the most well known of a group of chemicals called alkyl nitrates, usually referred to as poppers.
During the 1950s and 1960s, LSD was used more for psychotherapy than recreation. Between 1950 and 1965, many were treated with LSD for alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, autism and homosexuality.
Rural workplaces often tacitly encourage excessive drinking and even drugtaking.
Ice is a slang name for crystal methamphetamine – a stimulant drug that is swallowed, smoked or injected. It works by activating the reward pathways in the brain, producing feelings of alertness.
Prince’s death was recorded as accidental. Accidents are common when it comes fentanyl, a powerful pain killer 100 times stronger than morphine.
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