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So-called ‘party’ towns like Byron Bay attract huge numbers of visitors for schoolies weeks and New Year’s Eve – but sometimes at high cost to the young people who live there.
Many more women probably use drugs than official figures suggest. And they certainly face more harms.
The Saint Regis Mohawk tribe has struck a multimillion-dollar deal with Allergan. But the deal may do more harm than good.
Budget cuts have consequences.
Maybe it’s time the government listened to the advice offered by its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
A British woman has been arrested for transporting the prescription painkiller into Egypt and could even face the death penalty.
Medication usage has gone through the roof in the last decade.
Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
Whether you’re a night owl or a morning lark, circadian rhythms control just about every aspect of your health.
President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
More Australians over 50 are drinking and taking drugs than ever before. Here’s why that can be a problem.
A Victorian athlete’s use of ‘performance-enhancing’ coca was met with interested approval rather than anger of the kind directed at Justin Gatlin.
Synthetic opiates are a growing problem.
Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the ‘80’s and '90’s.
Anabolic steroids and nitrous oxide are on the up and up.
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.
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.
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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
