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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.
What It Was Like Being a Test Subject in One of the Earliest LSD Experiments
Doctors and nurses in the province used to be tripping out all the time. Now years later, LSD as medicine could be back.
Black Magic and Chicken Blood: Photos of My Week with Sierra Leone's Witch Doctors
A gallery of photographer Olivia Acland's latest work from Sierra Leone where she visited doctors that use a combination of black magic and herbal medicines to cure the sick.
I Take Nine Grams of GHB Every Night to Treat My Narcolepsy
Xyrem, GHB's Big Pharma brother, is one of the most effective treatments for narcolepsy – only, it's near-impossible to get hold of, leading to fears that sufferers might start to self-medicate with drugs bought off the dark web.
This Neuroscientist Argues That Addiction Is Not a Disease and Rehab Is Bullshit
Marc Lewis, a former drug addict and current neuroscientist, says the medical model of treating addiction needs to be challenged.
The Low-Grade Heroin Ravaging Serbia's Roma Underclass
Called "pajdo," the drug is cheap and plentiful, but destroys the bodies of users who are already suffering under the crushing weight of poverty and racism.
Chronicles of Premature Ejaculation
Jizzing in your pants might seem hilarious, but to those who suffer from the very-real condition of premature ejaculation, there's nothing funny about it.
Meeting Scotland's Illegal DIY Weed Doctors
Medical cannabis isn't legal in the UK, but that doesn't stop home chemists from processing it into the kind of oils and capsules that can alleviate the symptoms of everything from epilepsy to cancer.
This Is What Developing Acute Schizophrenia Feels Like
A year ago this winter I began to not recognise myself.
Bucharest Is Not a Good Place to Be a Heroin Addict
Unless you're into police brutality and an enforced lack of medical attention.
Lepers, Messiahs*
When I arrived in Nepal, my ultimate destination was the Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in the southeastern Terai Plain.