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At Drug Science we like to cover different topics relating to drugs. These topics cover the many different ways that psychoactive substances have an impact on our culture and society.
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research 2022
Written by Orla Mallon Things were really ramping up in Europe this September, with the OPEN Foundation hosting their 5th...
Orla Mallon
Oct 1, 20226 min read
A comparative study of the harms of nitrous oxide and poppers using the MCDA approach
Author Plinio M Ferreira, Adam R Winstock, Anne Katrin Schlag, Brigitta Brandner, David Nutt, Graeme Henderson, Ian Miller, Jan Van...
Dr Anne Schlag, Professor David Nutt and more
Sep 23, 20222 min read
Screening and Assessment Tools for Geriatric Psychiatry
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Drug Science
Sep 22, 20221 min read
Screening and Assessment Tools for Adult Psychiatry
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Drug Science
Sep 22, 20221 min read
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the use of psilocybin by veterans with symptoms of trauma
Author FL Smith, JC Neill and V Wainwright Published September 7, 2022 Abstract Veterans are at increased risk of experiencing symptoms...
FL Smith, JC Neill and more
Sep 7, 20221 min read
How to read a paper on the short-term impairing effects of cannabis: A selective and critical review of the literature
Author Michael A White, Nicholas R Burns Published August 15, 2022 Abstract The prosecution of cannabis-presence driving offences (in the...
Michael White and Nicholas Burns
Aug 15, 20222 min read
The Psychedelic Access and Research European Alliance
The Psychedelic Access and Research European Alliance (PAREA) has officially launched with an impressive array of wide-ranging support...
PAREA
Aug 8, 20222 min read
The Drug Enforcement Agency listens to psychedelic experts
By Professor David Nutt and James Bunn The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently withdrew a proposal to ban five psychedelic substances:...
Professor David Nutt and James Bunn
Aug 5, 20224 min read
Legal psilocybin prescriptions in Canada
What is the Special Access Programme? On January 5th 2022, Health Canada amended the Food and Drug Regulations and the Narcotic Control...
Drug Science
Jul 28, 20223 min read
Comparative harms assessments for cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco: Risk for psychosis, cognitive impairment, and traffic accident
Author Petter Grahl Johnstad Published July 25, 2022 Abstract Researchers have associated cannabis use with risk for psychosis, cognitive...
Petter Grahl Johnstad
Jul 25, 20222 min read
State naloxone co-prescribing laws show mixed effects on overdose mortality rates
Author MaryKate Duska, Jared M. Rhoads, Elizabeth C. Saunders, Tracy Onega Published July 25, 2022 Objective To examine the relative...
MaryKate Duska, Jared Rhoads and more
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Eating ourselves to death: How food is a drug and what food abuse costs
Author Matthew Robinson Published July 18, 2022 Abstract The objective of this paper is to examine definitions of the terms “drug,” “drug...
Matthew Robinson
Jul 18, 20221 min read
Diamorphine-Assisted Treatment
Diamorphine-assisted treatment is the prescription and provision of hygienic, medical-grade diamorphine to patients in a clinical set-up...
Drug Science
Jul 11, 20222 min read
The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001: A case study in poor legislative drafting
Author Cathal T Gallagher Published July 11, 2022 Abstract The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (MDRs) create exemptions to the offences...
Cathal Gallagher
Jul 11, 20221 min read
User perceptions of the benefits and harms of hallucinogenic drug use: A web-based questionnaire study
Authors Robin Carhart-Harris, David Nutt Published July 30, 2010 Abstract This study used a web-based questionnaire to investigate user...
Robin Carhart-Harris and Professor David Nutt
Jul 7, 202232 min read
Over One Hundred Years of MDMA Research
Written by Libby Furminger History 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also known as Mandy, Molly, Ecstasy or ‘E’, is a class A...
Libby Furminger
Jun 29, 202210 min read
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore and Drug Science
“All of us at Drug Science were saddened to hear earlier this week of the death of Colin following his year-long battle with motor-neuron...
Professor David Nutt
Jun 28, 20221 min read
Cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system in fibromyalgia: a review of preclinical and clinical research
Authors Stephanie Bourke, Anne Schlag, Saoirse Elizabeth O’Sullivan, David Nutt, David Finn Published May 21, 2022 Fibromyalgia affects...
Dr Anne Schlag, Professor David Nutt and more
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to pilot overdose prevention centres in the UK
In the United Kingdom, in 2020, there were 4,517 deaths related to illicit drug use; the highest rate of drug related deaths since...
Drug Science
Jun 15, 20222 min read
Characteristics of People Seeking Prescribed Cannabinoids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Evidence From Project Twenty 21
Authors Anne Katrin Schlag, Michael Lynskey, Alan Fayaz, Alkyoni Athanasiou-Fragkouli, Brigitta Brandner, Barbara Haja, Elizabeth Iveson...
Dr Anne Schlag, Professor David Nutt and more
Jun 13, 20223 min read
Are you looking for more information about our Long COVID study?
Drug Science are seeking study participants for a feasibility study of a cannabis-based medicinal product for the treatment of Long COVID...
Drug Science
Jun 8, 20222 min read
The Post COVID cathinone hydra
Written by Professor Fiona Measham and Dr Michael Pascoe A study published in the journal of Drug Science Policy and Law describes...
Professor Fiona Measham and Dr Michael Pascoe
Jun 8, 20225 min read
Ketamine for Alcohol Use Disorder
Written by Tiago Vasconcelos. A review of the recent paper – ‘Adjunctive Ketamine With Relapse Prevention–Based Psychological Therapy in...
Tiago Vasconcelos
May 24, 20225 min read
A critical review of drug testing policy in the Philippines
Authors Carissa Paz Dioquino Published May 16, 2022 Abstract The drug policy in the Philippines is written as the Comprehensive Dangerous...
Carissa Paz Dioquino
May 20, 20222 min read
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