This article was first published on The Conversation under the title ‘Why do humans have an innate desire to get high?’ It’s easy to explain the appeal of drugs …
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ILLEGAL! is a new magazine that deals with drugs and culture. Sold on the streets of the UK by people who use drugs and others from marginalised groups, …
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It is very exciting that our latest psilocybin study paves the way for a new treatment for depression. For the first time in many years, people who were at …
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When an MP, an organisation of police officers, a film director and a comedian enter a bookshop to talk drugs and cannabis, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was …
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Directly and indirectly, drug policies have a profound impact on society and medicine. The ways in which psychoactive substances are classified and controlled affect the health, well-being and freedoms …
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Drug related deaths are at their highest on record and the call to action has been predominantly targeted towards treatment professionals. Volteface met with Michaela Jones, Community Director of in2recovery, …
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Last night Allegra Stratton presented a film on ITV News which reveals the scale of drug gangs exploiting teenagers for labour in the UK. We invited former undercover police officer and …
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(Shutterstock) Ian Hamilton, University of York; Mark Monaghan, Loughborough University, and Wayne Hall, The University of Queensland Most cannabis users find that the effects of occasional use of the …
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Following three years of tweaks and fine tuning, the government of Uruguay has confirmed that, towards the middle of the year, cannabis sales will begin at licensed pharmacies. For …
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Why Current Drug Policies Are Failing The Children and Young People We Seek to Protect
by Web TestToday is Universal Children’s Day. It marks the day when the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child …