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A person’s drug experience can be influenced by many different things, such as heat, access to water and dosage.
At present South Africa is simply placing a potentially dangerous market into the hands of criminal syndicates and international traffickers.
Most drug use among Australian festival goers appears to be occasional and isn’t problematic. But a small group experience higher rates of drug-related harms.
More than 1,000 people died as a result of drugs in Scotland last year.
New research shows some festival goers are willing to take a dodgy pill regardless of the test result. So, let’s use pill testing to educate them and others about reducing their risk.
While the majority of teenagers don’t take illicit drugs, there’s still a chance you might be offered them. Here’s how to say no, according to an expert.
It’s ineffective to use drug dogs at festivals and in public places because they’re much more likely to catch small-time users than suppliers.
People who use party drugs say it gives them energy to dance and socialise, reduces their inhibitions and enhances their feelings of connection to others.
Popular accounts of the effects of microdosing don’t quite match the experience of long-term microdosers, according to this new research.
Most people assume drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, but the reasons aren’t related to their relative risk or harm.
Around 35% of Australians have tried marijuana at some point in their life, and 11% have tried ecstasy. Most people who try drugs do so for a short period in their lives – mostly in their 20s.
With several music festival patrons dying this year the pill testing debate is in full swing. Yet people can already purchase legally available test kits. Do they work?
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.
Some drug and alcohol programs
currently used in prisons have little evidence to support them.
Ephylone belongs to the growing class of designer stimulants called synthetic cathinones. The effects have been described as a mix between MDMA and cocaine, while others are more similar to ice.
Victoria should implement a new report’s recommendation to allow peers to distribute clean injecting equipment, but it needs to go further to ensure safe drug use in prison.
Cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit substance in Australia, after marijuana.
Phenibut is a central nervous system depressant, and is currently being investigated for its possible role in seven overdoses at a Queensland school.
More Australians over 50 are drinking and taking drugs than ever before. Here’s why that can be a problem.
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Hon. Professor Drug Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University