Narcomania
This Is How a Country Could Stop Its Heroin Users Dying from Overdoses
Naloxone is a miracle drug that can bring people back from the brink of an overdose. Problem is, a mixture of fear and austerity is keeping local English councils from getting their hands on the stuff.
A Guide to Spice: The Drug That's Putting Kids in Hospital
Everything you need to know about "robot weed", the new nightmare drug.
Ecstasy Is Stronger Than It's Ever Been
Thanks to the online drug markets and advances in chemistry, pills throughout Europe have become extremely potent.
This Is What It Felt Like to Arrest a Friend for Heroin Trafficking
We spoke to a former undercover DEA agent about the two years he spent befriending an Afghan opium kingpin, before locking him up for life.
Mephedrone, Psychosis and a Severed Penis: When Drugs Are Blamed in Courts
This week, a man who stabbed his mother several times before severing his own dick used a "drug-induced psychosis" defence. But how legitimate is it for offenders to lay all the blame on narcotics?
An Alert for Drug Users: If You're Going Out This Weekend, Don't Take Pink 'Superman' Pills
Four deaths were attributed to them over Christmas and New Year's. When will the UK adopt a similar pill-testing scheme to the one in place in the Netherlands?
Is a 'Death Dealer' Intentionally Murdering Cocaine Tourists in Amsterdam?
Three tourists have died in the past couple of months after snorting white heroin that they believed to be cocaine. Is this the fault of an inexperienced, idiotic dealer, or someone deliberately doling out death?
'Illegal!' Magazine Will Teach You How to Take Drugs Better
The Danish quarterly magazine – now available in the UK – is sold by drug users as an alternative to "theft and prostitution", and might actually give you some helpful pointers.
No, Drug Addicts Won't Be Spiking Children's Sweets This Halloween
Urban myths about evil trick-or-treaters are surfacing again.
Meeting Hardcore Drug Users at a Four-Star Hotel in Lithuania
I learned all sorts at the International Harm Reduction Conference.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the UK Drugs Scene
Brought to you, minus the bullshit, by the authors of "Narcomania".