Users and police in this city's beaten-down Hilltop neighborhood credit another drug flooding the United States: the overdose antidote naloxone. James "Sleaze" Morgan says naloxone has saved him ...

The facility will allow people to take illegal drugs under medical supervision. George started taking the drug recreationally, but has now been left needing bladder surgery. The two men from ...

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 same insurgents who embraced opium to help finance their war have put an end to it, ordering a ban that has all but cleared Afghanistan of poppy and other illicit drugs. What the United States ...

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 ...

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.

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection ...

In addition to obesity-related conditions, some patients are being prescribed the drugs to lose weight and become eligible for services, including organ transplants, fertility treatments or knee ...

As Mark Moran was facing another 90-hour week as an investment-banking intern at Credit Suisse in New York, he knew he needed help to survive the rest of the summer. His colleagues gave him a tip ...

“All the early work came from here: the cholinergic drugs [the medicines Donepezil, Rivastigmine and Galantamine], used by the NHS to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease came out of work ...

In some ways, Captagon is the great unifier of the drug world. The synthetic stimulant is used across the Middle East by everyone from truckies and taxi drivers battling through shift work ...

Nicole Lee works as a paid consultant to the alcohol and other drug sector. She has previously been awarded grants by state and federal governments, NHMRC and other public funding bodies for ...