Beckley News : Drugs

Global Drug Survey (GDS) finds users moving from dealers to internet, while extent of alcohol use remains 'very worrying'

TestSure offers a kit to check the drug purity of molly, cocaine, LSD, and more, using the same technology employed by many law enforcement agencies.

Are governments around the world wasting millions of pounds on Tamiflu?

If you gave a color blind person something like LSD or some other sort of hallucinogenic drug, would they see colors they couldn't before?First a little primer

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring survey (ADAM) was terminated in March, and not one congressmen tried to save it. Now the U.S. is without an accurate estimate of its drug users. That means less funding for research and treatment.

Federal leaders are willing to consider supporting a congressional effort to remove marijuana from the same category of drugs as LSD, heroin and ecstasy.   According to the Huffington Post, attorney general Eric Holder made the overture during a hearing in Washington.

The UKIP leader wants to see a Royal Commission to examine the pros and cons of decriminalisation as is the case in Portugal and some US states

As places like Uruguay, Colorado and Washington spearhead the move away from the prohibitionist framework that dictated global drug policy, the British government remains blind to this change.  Instead continues to march in the wrong direction on this issue, doubling-down on a policy of criminalisation openly damned as a failure by people from across the political spectrum.

HEART pills taken by millions of people in Britain could dramatically reduce the risk of dementia.

For nearly a decade, teenagers and 20-somethings in Canada have been experimenting and enhancing their social experiences by smoking synthetic pot and popping party pills­.

South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck issues drug  warning after man dies from taking homemade ecstasy tablets

Vaporising, and then inhaling alcohol has gained a lot of attention lately. In the 1950s it was introduced as a treatment for excessive fluid in your ...

Building on the society of stimulation, this long-read post is a theoretical examination of pharmacology as material practice and as metaphor. Today capital operates via the production of hyperaroused bodies but in doing so it also creates the conditions under which the nervous system itself becomes a site of the refusal of work. [TW: eating disorder, suicide, drug dependency].

Four synthetic hallucinogens with effects similar to LSD are set to be outlawed by the Federal Government.

New American studies on clinical use of psychedelics follow 40-year medical ban.

New Yorkers’ appetite for heroin has exploded as its price has plunged, its potency has soared — and authorities have focused on prescription-pill traffickers. The recent overdose death of heroin-addled…

Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about to end.

Study showing party drug treating depression latest in list of drugs with surprising medical advantages.