'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'

"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said."This is simply fantastic, and I very much hope it's true. If you ever wondered how crop circles come about (and don't believe that...

Warning of extra heart dangers from mixing cocaine and alcohol

"Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical – the only known example of the body forming a third drug following the ingestion of two others. For not only is cocaethylene toxic in the liver, it is also...

LSD and cannabis should not be brought into the alcohol debate

MANCHESTER—International drug education provider the Foundation for a Drug-Free World has hit out at Government drug adviser Professor David Nutt, after his report published today claimed drugs including cannabis, ecstasy and LSD are less harmful than alcohol. Professor...

Drugs and pharmaceutical marketing

Pharmaceutical marketing is the business of advertising or promoting the sale of pharmaceuticals, medicines or drugs. Drugs have been discovered either by isolating the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery. Modern biotechnology often...

Inside Taliban's "Islamic Emirate" by David Rhode, US Journalist

The recent reports says that Taliban's Financial situation is getting better while that of Al Queda goes down. Opium cultivation, illicit drug trade, kidnapping and extortion earns them close to $400 million, according to New York Time - which the US so far not able to...

Anti-drug vaccines don't work (yet)

"A study reported this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that an experimental "cocaine vaccine" was mostly ineffective at reducing consumption of the drug."I'm not entirely surprised by this finding. Scientists have, for years now, been trying to find a drug...