Other Drugs

Articles on drugs not covered by our other categories, including ketamine, nitrous oxide and new psychoactive substances.

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Pushed to the Brink – Fighting for Diamorphine Access in the UK

Drink and Drug News

May 11, 2022

This month, Release received great coverage on their battle to ensure that diamorphine patients were not pushed off their prescription.…

Drug Harm Reduction Other Drugs

Reducing MDMA Comedown and Risks

Phoenix Mohawk

May 9, 2022

In late February, Vice reported on a study originally published in late December 2021 stating that MDMA use had no “comedown”,…

Drug Policy Drugs & Race Other Drugs

Crack Pipes & Dog Whistles – Behind the Racist Media Coverage of Harm Reduction in the US

Alliance for Positive Change's LES Harm Reduction Center

Mar 14, 2022

As fatal overdoses continue to rise amid the pandemic, there is a growing acceptance of harm reduction and its necessity…

Drug Harm Reduction Drug Policy Other Drugs

Brazilian D.A.R.E. Programme is A Failure. We Need Real Drug Education

Felipe Neis Araujo

Jan 24, 2022

Previous studies conducted in other Brazilian states—as well as in other parts of South America and the world —have reached…

Opioids Other Drugs Personal Stories

What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me When I Started Using Drugs

M. L. Lanzillotta

Jan 5, 2022

When I began using drugs, I didn’t have anyone I could safely go to for advice or help. Nobody in…

Drug Policy Drugs & Development Other Drugs Personal Stories

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Digital words with Constellations panellists

André Gomes

Nov 15, 2021

With the stellar HRI conference Constellations starting tomorrow, TalkingDrugs had the opportunity to catch up with some of the panellists…

Drug Policy Other Drugs Personal Stories

“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment Facilities

André Gomes

Nov 12, 2021

As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…

Other Drugs

The U.S. Counties Where Psychedelic Mushrooms Grow

Mercedes Martinez

Oct 4, 2021

Moves towards psilocybin decriminalisation in the US have helped make this mushroom foraging season more magical than usual. Mushroom…

Drug Trafficking Other Drugs Personal Stories

Book: Dopeworld’s deep dive into Hydra and one of its Russian cyber queen-pins

André Gomes

Sep 28, 2021

Niko Vorobyov has shared with TalkingDrugs an extract of his latest book, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade. It…

Drug Policy Other Drugs

Criticism of Awakn Treatment Model as Second Clinic Opens for Treating Addiction

Paola D'Alessandra

Sep 20, 2021

Emerging pharmaceutical companies are promising revolutionary treatments for substance misuse based on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA), in…

Coca & Cocaine Drug Harm Reduction Opioids Other Drugs

DRUG ALERTS – August 2021 (UK)

Release

Aug 14, 2021

DRUG ALERT – 14 August 2021 Portsmouth, Hampshire & London The following information is for people who use heroin…

Cannabis Drug Harm Reduction Drug Policy Other Drugs

TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [April 2021]

Anastasia Bezverkha

May 13, 2021

Ukraine: Instead of drug policy reform, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree on the circulation of some cannabis-based medicines…