A pensioner-drug dealer was detained in the Lviv region: a woman was selling "methadone" (photo)
On Thursday, May 12, law enforcement officers in the Lviv region caught a pensioner for drug trafficking. A 60-year-old woman was exposed while selling another dose of…
The Cabinet of Ministers resumed the sale of albumin abroad for national producers
Permission to sell blood products abroad will help the pharmaceutical industry fulfill international contracts. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allowed national manufacturers to sell blood products…
Could psychedelics be used to treat mental health disorders?
Over the last year, Awakn – the UK’s first private clinic offering psychedelic treatment in combination with psychotherapy for addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, eating disorders and other…
‘Drugs, always drugs’: how the rock ‘n’ roll dream almost killed me
In the small hours of April 2 2011, Eric Winwood smashed his head open and bled to death. He’d come to London with my mother to see…
‘I could make colours freak out’: meet photography’s answer to Jimi Hendrix
Ferris’s psychedelic photography is memorialised in an ongoing show at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture, and also in…
Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears: ‘I was taking everything – drugs, alcohol, sleeping pills’
Smith is beaming in from sunny Los Angeles, where he has lived with his family for over two decades, taking American citizenship in 2007. The relationship of…
How easy is it to forge a million-dollar Basquiat painting?
It sounds like something out of a thriller film. Twenty-five previously unseen paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, dating from the height of his career, are found in an…
Perhaps a middle-aged man should not be writing Euphoria
In the first episode, drug dealer Fez brutally beats Nate at a New Year’s Eve party in a toe-curling graphic bloodbath that’s gory even for this show’s…
How magic mushrooms changed my life
The sunlight glittered on the sea and the coconut palms waved beguilingly as the facilitator gave each of us a handful of brown capsules. They looked like…
To parents, Euphoria is the most terrifying – and relatable – drama on TV
Yes, there are differences – social media has undoubtedly heightened the angst that comes with adolescence – but scenes from the former lives of some of the Euphoria…
Is the new Covid drug the answer to our prayers?
The Covid drugs are finally here – but how well will they work? On Monday, the NHS began giving out doses of a new antiviral drug designed…
The idea that films and TV ‘glamourise’ drug use is patronising nonsense
Indeed, Farrimond sounds a lot like former US President Ronald Reagan, who gave a speech to high-school seniors in Chattanooga Tennessee about the dangers of drugs. Reagan…
The idea that films and TV ‘glamorise’ drug use is patronising nonsense
Indeed, Farrimond sounds a lot like former US President Ronald Reagan, who gave a speech to high-school seniors in Chattanooga Tennessee about the dangers of drugs. Reagan…
If you think middle class cocaine use is just a bit of dinner party fun, you need to think again
I first took cocaine in my early 20s. It stung my nose and made my eyes water but mostly it made me feel like I had just…
‘San Fransicko’: a must-read exposé of the misery caused by an ultra-liberal policy experiment
But activists became convinced that this was the wrong way around, that housing is a right and people will only pull themselves together once they’ve got a…
‘Who’d watch a movie about drug addicts?’: behind the scenes of Trainspotting, 25 years on
AM: You’d never get permission to film this way now. It was complete naivety. People were just jumping or being pushed out of the way. There was…