NSW will begin a pill testing trial at music festivals from early 2025 in what the government says will help people make safer choices before using illicit drugs. The 12-month trial, which will be ...

For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine.

The drug bazaar that powered this part of southern Afghanistan has been all but emptied. And the nation, already reeling without international aid, has lost a sizable piece of its economy as a result.

Merck announced on Wednesday that it has inked a global licensing partnership with Chinese biotech Hansoh Pharma to advance a GLP-1 receptor agonist pill, jumping into an already-crowded space of oral ...

Like Ozempic and Saxenda, some doctors may prescribe this medication off-label for weight loss support. The manufacturer’s website states that although it is not a weight loss drug, people can ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has placed its most serious warning – a so-called black-box warning – on a drug used to relieve menopausal hot flashes. The FDA says women who are taking ...

Researchers at Mount Sinai are developing a revolutionary pill using harmine, a DYRK1A inhibitor, to regenerate insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Harmine alone tripled beta cell mass ...

Former Huntsville physician Shelinder Aggarwal, who was previously described as a “pill mill doctor” by federal investigators, was one of the 1,499 people to have their sentence reduced last ...

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

Anna Wood died in 1995 after taking the drug, which was purchased by a female friend outside a rave they attended at the Phoenician Club in Sydney. She collapsed the following day and was put on ...

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A former Huntsville pill mill doctor was one of nearly 1,500 people who had their sentence commuted by President Joe Biden last week. In October 2016, Shelinder ...