Most people assume drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, but the reasons aren’t related to their relative risk or harm.
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Illicit drugs can be dangerous. Read this before you use so you know what to look out for.
Every summer we hear of more deaths from drugs at festivals. But MDMA was originally a medicine, so how can it kill users?
Monkey dust is in the “bath salts” family. Here’s what that means.
There are arguments against pill testing. But none are as compelling or evidence-based as the arguments for it.
Many brides are ecstatic when they marry, but few use the drug ecstasy on the big day. Kim Kardashian West recently divulged that she did. A drug expert explains the big risks of the party drug.
MDMA study sheds new light on social interaction.
To know the real promise of psychedelic substances like LSD, mushrooms and MDMA, researchers must embrace the principles and practise of ‘open science.’
We’ve got better at managing the health risks of traditional drugs of abuse, but novel psychoactive substances, or ‘legal highs’, are a dangerous unknown.
Once associated with mind-control experiments and counter-cultural defiance, psychedelics now show great promise for mental health treatments and may prompt a re-evaluation of the scientific method.
A new study among gay and bisexual men living with HIV found those who were occasional or regular users of party drugs reported significantly better social outcomes than non-users.
Current trials suggest MDMA could used to treat psychiatric disorders as a prescription medicine by 2021. But there remain a number of unresolved patient / doctor issues to be considered.
Synthetic opiates are a growing problem.
Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
Researchers are finding medical uses for some molecules in certain street drugs, but it’s important to call the drugs by their real names. Here’s why that’s important.
In the absence of any more sophisticated options, drug consumers are resorting to drug testing kits they can access themselves.
Today, there are more than 20 cryptomarkets selling illicit drugs, or more than 55 if single-vendor markets are included.
If people are going to take drugs, wouldn’t it be better if they knew what was in them?
Ketamine may be the latest recreational drug to find a new legal use.
Molly is one of the most popular party drugs in the US. But what a lot of people may not know is that molly is actually a form of ecstasy (MDMA), and this misunderstanding can put young people at risk…
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