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This is the moment of truth. John’s story is no longer trapped in the clinical pages of a case file. ‘I’ve lost everything,’ he says. ‘I might as well be dead.’
Spice has been nicknamed the ‘zombie drug’ due to the debilitating effects it can cause.
Chemicals found in food and solar cell technology have an interesting history – as my own research shows.
Social media makes it easy to spread ‘fake news’.
Prices are surging amid shortages and panic-buying – and we could soon be facing a public health disaster.
Archaeologists have found cloves and black pepper corns they believe to be more than 1,000 years old at a site in Sri Lanka.
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.
Island philosophies can be used to decolonise university courses and teaching. They can also advance sustainable development models and, ultimately, achieve responsible tourism.
The new psychoactive drug Spice is taking its toll on frontline policing.
New psychoactive substances, same problematic users.
Anyone for a 2,512-day-old burger?
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Lancashire
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Professor of Forensic Science, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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