Drugs were hidden in four suitcases on ship returning to Essex from Caribbean, police say

Suppliers, fearing police crackdown, decide opioid is too high-risk to trade

For recreational users, ecstasy has long been associated with a harmonious mindset. Now there’s research to back that up. In a new study of MDMA, ecstasy’s main ingredient, the drug indeed made people more cooperative—but only with trustworthy partners.

2018 has been an incredible time for advances in psychedelic research, including psilocybin mushrooms, ketamine and more, not to mention a landmark year for MDMA and cannabis. Meanwhile, some research on a much lesser known psychedelic, 5-MeO-DMT, has slipped past national attention. Known as 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, this potent little molecule is most famous for occurring in …

The long read: When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident

Public health experts say they see reason to be optimistic but warned against drawing firm conclusions based on a half-year’s worth of data.

The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which has called for a major rethinking of global policy on illegal narcotics.

Mushrooms contain many unexplored compounds that could help humanity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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 …

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