Rosalind Stone

  Moments before we go live, a make-up technician leans towards a large expanse of orange flesh, and, for the third time that day, daubs away the crummy residue of …

Three perspectives, one conclusion: whilst drugs are illegal, no one is safe. We heard from Neil Woods, former undercover agent and chairman of LEAP UK (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), writer …

  Besides the academic programme, that which I’m looking forward to most about BC17 is the part which we, as organisers, can take no credit for: the spirit of the …

  “I first met Nick [Sands] when I was about 15. I was revising for my GCSE Chemistry and he visited; he’d recently got out of prison. He was an …

  In the low ethereal glow of a hotel bathroom, the dopamine flows. Two pairs of eyes meet across the bubbles, and serotonin streams like sunlight into the 5-HT receptors …

  In the past eight months, over 7,000 people have been murdered in the Philippines, stupefying the rest of the human-rights conscious world. “If Germany had Hitler, The Philippines would …

  “People who use drugs are as different to one another as coffee drinkers are.” (Dr James Rowe, specialist in the sociology of drug use) The term “coffee drinkers” is …

  “I was eleven and I’d been chasing the dragon.” Wasted (2007) is a slick, brutal, beautifully psychoanalysed ragbag of smack, shooting up and second-guessing which reads in equal parts …

    There’s no such thing as a current overview of drug trends: “By the time they’re published, most official reports are way out of date,” says freelance journalist and …