Localpass.eu

This year’s European Health Award and its 10,000 euros cash prize went to the Recreational Drugs European Network (ReDNet). The multicentre project is aimed at identifying new psychoactive substances sold online and improving the information stream...

New psychoactive substances laws require manufacturers to provide evidence that their product poses a ‘low risk’ to consumers before they can market it. Can they do it without animal testing? Image credit: Understanding Animal Research ...

Synthetic compounds, also called “new psychoactive substances,” are drugs created in laboratories to mimic the psychoactive effects of illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Sold in headshops and by internet retailers, synthetic marijuana...

In March and April, 56 people in the Sacramento area were hospitalized after taking Norco brand hydrocodone pills. Fifteen died. But, as we discovered, these pills were not pharmaceutical hydrocodone at all. They were counterfeits containing fentanyl...

While the use of traditional drugs is largely stable, demand is soaring for untested concoctions of psychoactive substances that threaten to be more dangerous, the United Nations drug and crime agency said. The popularity of traditional drugs, such...