Rather than being designed by chemists, this class of pharmaceuticals is produced by living cells. Here’s where they come from and how they work.
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The Home Office issued its last drug strategy seven years ago. A lot has changed in that time, except the Home Office’s ability to ignore the advice of experts.
Some technologies can be used to manipulate mood. Drug research offers insights into their possible impact.
Allowing young people to legally access marijuana will improve cannabis education and use-prevention, and hinder illegal activity.
The federal government outlaws marijuana, but many states are legalizing it. Coupled with the growing number of cannabis-related patents, the potential for court battles is dizzying.
What’s on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
Social media is not a drug. Yes it can have negative effects, but it has positive effects too.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter told Q&A that ‘rates of drug use amongst unemployed are 2.5 times higher than amongst employed people’. Is that correct?
Amazon currently sells pretty much everything, including the kitchen sink, but medications are very different from books and fidget spinners.
The proportion of population who use legal and illegal drugs has remained stable or trended down. Fewer young people are using, but the proportion of older people using drugs and alcohol has grown.
Students taking ‘smart drugs’ to boost their academic performance are putting their health at risk.
Jeff Sessions wants prosecutors to ‘charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.’ That’s a step back to our failed experiment in mass incarceration.
The figures don’t really add up.
There is an urgent need to reconsider steroid use as a public health issue as opposed to a criminal justice concern.
The new psychoactive drug Spice is taking its toll on frontline policing.
A push towards prescribing generic medications rather than their branded equivalents, as flagged in the budget, may have benefits beyond simple cost savings.
In many trials, patients have been told they’re getting the sugar pill. They still got better.
Twenty-two-year-old Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury was arrested on April 11 at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Sainsbury was due to return to Australia via London. Her suitcase contained 5.8kg…
Just as Fitzgerald’s career was taking off, jazz was under attack for its purported connection to drug culture. If she wanted to become a mainstream superstar, she needed to make a choice.
Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Joel Lexchin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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University of Sydney
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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PhD Candidate, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Professor & Specialist in Drug Policy, UNSW Sydney
