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An estimated £300m worth of medicine goes unused in the UK every year. But is it safe to take drugs past their expiry date?
The use of alcohol with GHB is very dangerous because it can increase the toxic effects of the drug. It should also not be used in combination with sedatives or other anaesthetics.
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.
Facebook began blocking ads that linked Truvada and other HIV-related drugs to severe bone and kidney damage based on claims made in lawsuits.
We are seeing the end of modern medicine slowly being played out due to antibiotic resistance. But we can act together to alter the situation.
Schoolies and other leavers’ celebrations are a chance for teenagers to exert their independence and experiment with their identity as a young adult. And yes, you can help without losing your cool.
NICE has concluded that more research is needed before it can recommend the use of cannabis based products for medicinal use.
Pill testing, no more sniffer dogs and fewer strip searches are some of the ways the NSW coroner says will reduce drug deaths at music festivals.
And homelessness makes reoffending more likely.
For most medicines, it doesn’t matter when you take them. But others work best at particular times.
How much more suffering and death will people who use drugs have to endure?
A person’s drug experience can be influenced by many different things, such as heat, access to water and dosage.
Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
The idea that we can sit down calmly and rationally and explain to our children how they can take drugs safely overlooks a bundle of emotional issues.
When codeine became a prescription only drug in 2018, the number of overdoses dropped, our new research shows. But restricting sales of codeine is only one way to reduce harm from opioids.
Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.
National drug regulators use evidence from clinical trials to decide whether new cancer drugs will be approved for use. But these studies are often flawed.
Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
Parents’ substance use affects children’s physical, psychological, cognitive, social and economic well-being, a new review of the research has found.
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute / enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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PhD Candidate, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University