A special drive to eliminate illegal opium cultivation is being conducted across the Khunti, Ranchi, Seraikela-Kharsawan, and ...

Opinion: This commentary's author discusses how current debates about the military's role in stifling cartels bring to mind ...

New synthetic opioids (NSOs) are one of the fastest-growing groups of new psychoactive substances around the world ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

Opium was popularized for its pain relieving and anti-intestinal motility effects and ability to reduce ... pleasure and euphoria. As the drug wears off the euphoric effect diminishes.

The proposed legislation would create a new addition to the Opium Act, List IA ... cathinones), which replicate the effects of THC (cannabis), heroin, and MDMA, respectively. This change would prevent ...

The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the Chinese market with opium. By the 1830s, millions of Chinese citizens were addicted to the drug. In 1839, in response to the ...

The UK's medical regulator has been accused by MPs of concealing the potentially harmful side effects of some of the nation's most commonly taken drugs. The MHRA, which overseas the safety of ...

Monday's vast study confirmed the findings of the previous research, also bringing more specific information about the drugs' promising effects. Researchers carried out their investigation in the ...

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