The strip detects fentanyl, the cheap synthetic opioid, mixed with street drugs – that’s been blamed for the surge of overdose deaths. It’s controversial because helping drug users test their supplies could be seen as advocating abuse.

Drug companies will have to give list prices for their products in television ads under a new proposal the Trump administration released Monday. The new rule, which is open for discussion, would affect any drug covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the new proposal just hours after the lobby group that represents big drug companies said its members would start indirectly mentioning prices in their television ads.

Mushrooms contain many unexplored compounds that could help humanity.

A 31-year old woman who died from a methamphetamine overdose accidentally smothered her 8-month-old son, a Cherokee County sheriff’s spokesman said. The bodies were found July 17 in a home on Cedar Mill Crossing in Acworth, sheriff’s spokesman Jay Baker said Friday in a statement. The woman’s 2-year-old daughter was discovered in the home unharmed and is with family members.

Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science.

With all the focus on opioids, Narcotica has decided to launch a series on stimulants called "Speed Up, Slow Down." In the first installment, Zachary Siegel takes a critical look at how media depicts

When Sal Vulcano got someone else's package in the mail, he decided to play a little game with the intended recipient and ended up getting in way over his head.

Right from the seventies & eighties onto your screen. You can't snort pixels.

Monash University research raises the prospect of a link between antidepressants and light sensitivity.

In a bid to combat the exorbitant, greed-driven pricing schemes of pharmaceutical companies and increase the availability of essential generic medications,

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is a network of tech-fueled anarchists taking on Big Pharma with DIY medicines.

The tragic business of cleaning up deadly fentanyl overdose sites is booming — with calls flooding in for hazmat responses to hotels, schools, ball fields, public restrooms and even rental cars, where addicts have been shooting up drugs.“It’s increased tremendously in the last 18 months and even more specifically in the last 12 months,” said Michael Wiseman of Easton-based 24 Trauma, a commercial crime-scene cleanup service that now gets up to 10 OD cleanup calls a week.

After 76 drug overdoses in New Haven Wednesday, another 19 people have overdosed in the city Thursday.

The Colombian government has started to use drones to destroy the plants that produce cocaine. Small aircraft loaded with herbicide are being sent to search for illegal fields of coca. President Iván Duque has favoured the use of the unmanned aircraft to ensure that damage to neighbouring crops is kept to a minimum.

An analysis of wastewater finds that significant amounts of drugs were consumed during the solar eclipse. By Nathaniel Scharping.

The number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29% in 2017, Office for National Statistics data shows. Forms of the drug - used to treat cancer pain - are often imported illegally from Chinese laboratories and sold to users via the dark web. Deaths from psychoactive substances like spice or mephedrone halved. Drug policy campaigners called on the government to fund drug treatment and stop criminalising users.

Silicon Valley geeks say it sharpens their thinking and enhances creativity. Other people say it lifts the fog of depression. A novel experiment launching 3 September 2018 will investigate whether microdosing with LSD really does have benefits – or whether it’s all in the mind. Microdosing using psychedelic drugs – either LSD or magic mushrooms – is said to have become very popular, especially with people working in the Californian digital tech world...

Salvia is best known as somewhat of a meme—the goofy, over-the-counter psychedelic prevalent in head shops, notorious for its uncomfortable, short-lived hallucinogenic trip. Pretty much harmless, but a way that many young psychonauts get their toes wet. But the herb Salvia divinorum carries great cultural significance in some parts of the world, and research into …

In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that if it clears phase III clinical trials, psilocybin should be re-categorized from a schedule I drug—one with no known medical potential—to a schedule IV drug such as prescription sleep aids, but with tighter control.

A controversial study claimed legal drug use sites – like many cities want to open - don’t prevent overdoses. The publisher retracted the research citing human error. 

Psilocybin safety and abuse research shows that the drug has low potential for abuse and dependence, researchers say

The media frenzy against Juul, the US market leader in vaping products, is on steroids. The latest hit-piece was published ...

The British Columbia government has tabled legislation aimed at fast-tracking a lawsuit against dozens of players in the opioid industry that it says knowingly spread misinformation and downplayed the addictive properties of the drugs, contributing to the overdose crisis. Attorney-General David Eby said the Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, introduced on Monday, would help “facilitate the introduction of evidence” to expedite the class-action lawsuit announced in late August.

Ayahuasca may be helping to reduce rates of recidivism at Brazil's prisons. Some of Brazil's violent offenders are being offered the opportunity for radical rehabilitation via the powerful psychedelic experience of the ayahuasca ceremony.

It's an impediment to medical research on ayahuasca's potential to treat mental health disorders.

Norway’s parliament has voted to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment to addicts instead. 133 seats out of 175 voted in favour of decriminalising illegal drugs across the country. According to Norway’s 2017 Country Drug Report, 266 people died from drug-related deaths this year.

The cost of a vital cancer drug has gone up 15-fold in four years after its new owner hiked prices on nine separate occasions. Lomustine has been used to treat brain tumours, lung cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma for more than 40 years but is now seen by some patients as too expensive. In 2013, production of the drug, which was previously called CeeNU, passed from pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to a Miami-based startup called NextSource Biotechnology.

A group of large hospital systems plans to create a nonprofit generic drug company to battle shortages and high prices.

Testing the magical properties of mushrooms led scientists to philosophy's open secret.

A 2017 Global Drug Survey (GDS) covering hundreds of thousands of people around the world has ranked recreational drugs from the safest to the most dangerous, based on how many hospital admissions they lead to.

LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don't drug laws reflect it?

And how to avoid a bad edibles experience.

In just two years, drug giant McKesson Corp. shipped nearly 5 million prescription painkillers to a single pharmacy in a Southern West Virginia town with 400 residents, according to a letter released Thursday by a congressional committee investigating the opioid epidemic. McKesson, which ranks No. 5 in the Fortune 500, supplied more than 184,000 hydrocodone pills a month to a drive-thru pharmacy in Kermit in 2006 and 2007, the House Energy & Commerce disclosed in the letter.

The combination is naproxen (in Aleve) and stomach drug esomeprazole (in Nexium).

Insulin, first discovered in 1921, revolutionized the treatment of type 1 diabetes.