Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentEuropean Harm Reduction Is Facing a Funding CrisisNoor Vissram.Apr 22, 2025Harm reduction has long been a cornerstone of European public health, minimising drug use risks like overdose deaths or preventing…
Coca & CocaineVin Mariani: From Health Tonic to Moral PanicRyan Hesketh.Mar 31, 2025Instead of a wine that makes you sleepy, imagine one that could keep you up and talking all night. Imagine…
PsychedelicsNew UK Ketamine Trials Explore Its Mental Health PotentialsRaina Yip.Mar 25, 2025Since ketamine was first synthesised in 1956, its effects have been extensively studied. Today, it is widely used as a…
Drug PolicyPsychedelicsCounting Down: PsychedeliCare Launches Citizen’s Campaign for Psychedelic TherapyRyan Hesketh.Mar 21, 202512 months, three proposals, one million signatures. That’s the target so that this time next year, the European Commission may…
Drug PolicyA Historic Vote at the CND: Colombia Challenges the Global Drug Control SystemIsabel Pereira Arana.Mar 19, 2025In the final hours of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 14, we were on the edge of…
Drug PolicyTwo Months In, A Deeper Look at The Thistle, Glasgow’s Drug Consumption RoomNarcosis.Mar 17, 2025Scotland has been making the news for the past year on several headlines. First, as the capital of drug-related deaths…
Coca & CocaineDrug Harm ReductionLisbon forced to close Safer Smoking Site Amid Funding ChallengesAndré Gomes.Mar 11, 2025One of Lisbon’s drug consumption rooms was forced to close their smoking room in January due to funding challenges, limiting…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicySpain’s Decriminalisation: Decades of Quiet InnovationMarta Valldaura.Mar 6, 2025For over three decades, Spain has been a quiet leader in innovative drug policies. Aside from its globally known cannabis…
Drugs & GenderLatest Report Highlights Small Drop in World Female ImprisonmentsAndré Gomes.Feb 26, 2025A new report by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck University revealed that over 733,000 women…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyCan Cities Lead the Way in Drug Policy Reform?Raquel Santana Soria.Feb 24, 2025From trialling pill-testing to piloting cannabis regulation, cities across the world are increasingly taking the lead in drug policy reform,…
Other DrugsPsychedelics“Magic Mushroom” Vapes: A Capitalist Fad of the Psychedelic RenaissanceDennis Walker.Feb 19, 2025The ‘shroom boom’ has yielded the global market all manner of ways to consume the enigmatic and ancient ‘magic mushroom’.…
Drug PolicyIn Numbers: How The UK Media Talks About NitazenesAndré Gomes.Feb 10, 2025Over the past year, we have seen an increasing amount of attention given to nitazenes. A relatively unknown yet potent…