Js Rafaeli
Heroin for Trauma and Psychedelics for PTSD: Meeting People Who Self-Medicate with Illegal Drugs
According to a number of studies, around two-thirds of problematic drug users report childhood physical or sexual abuse. These figures need to be taken seriously.
'Hand Jobs' and Internet Creeps: The Strange World of the Professional Hand Model
Brooke Colman has appeared in some of the most expensive, visible adverts in the world, and doubled for Julia Roberts and Ant and Dec, but you'll have never seen her face.
How Your Low-Key Cocaine Habit Actually Affects Your Body
Do you and your friends put the call in every – or every other – weekend? This is what happens every time you do.
"There Was More Duty Sex" – How Moving in Together Can Change Your Sex Life
We spoke to a load of people about how moving in with a boyfriend or girlfriend affected the way they boned.
How Terror Tactics Are Evolving to Thwart State Surveillance
The 'Charlie Hebdo' attacks highlight the futility of spying on literally everyone in the hope of hearing something about a bomb.
Fabric Is Staying Open, but Now Has to Follow a Bunch of Self-Defeating Rules
To keep its licence, the venue agreed to bump up security to avoid drug-related casualties inside the club. Only, all that means is that people will just take all their drugs before they get in, which is is surely far more dangerous.
Bobby Keys Was History's Hardest Partying Saxophonist
I spoke to Joe Ely, a friend of the late Rolling Stones horn player, about their time in West Texas's honky-tonks and bordellos.
We Spoke to Afrika Bambaataa About Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and 'Bewitched'
Turns out the 1960s TV show had a transformative effect on the young Godfather of Hip Hop.
This Is What Happens When You Try to Treat Ebola with Homeopathy
Raising money to send homeopaths to Liberia under the pretence that they're actual proper doctors is always going to be a complete fucking disaster.
Gangsters, Raves and Bulletproof Vests: The Early Days of Fabric Nightclub
Meeting co-founder Keith Reilly on the 15th anniversary of a London institution.
Performers in London's 'Racist' Human Zoo Exhibit Are Angry It's Been Shut Down
Activists demanding black people tell their own stories aren't letting black people tell their own stories.