For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine.

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

The US Food and Drug Administration has placed its most serious warning – a so-called black-box warning – on a drug used to relieve menopausal hot flashes. The FDA says women who are taking ...

Newer PCSK9 inhibitor drugs can drop levels even further. Someone in the United States dies from heart disease every 33 seconds. It remains the number one killer in the country. So it’s no ...

A 10-panel drug test is a common way to check for various drugs in a person’s body. It typically involves testing urine for drugs, such as cannabinoids, opioids, and more. Typically, traces of ...

Drug safety relates to the potential for adverse effects related to the administration of drugs. Efforts to establish the safely profile of drugs begin early in their development, with in vitro ...

Drug-resistant infections are most prevalent in critical care units Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours. But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt ...

Your liver filters everything that goes into your body. It clears out alcohol, drugs, and chemicals from your blood. Then it processes the unwanted bits so you can flush them out through your ...

Covalent peptide drugs can achieve high potency and selectivity with long dosing intervals, however, methods to discover them are limited. Here, the authors incorporate a genetically encoded ...

The two men from Scotland helped land the 524kg of drugs in a dinghy on the East Yorkshire coast. As those in the lucrative Captagon network move aside, how will the new leaders stop any criminals ...

The UN human rights chief has called on leaders and international stakeholders to radically rethink global drug policy, stating that the decades-long “War on Drugs” approach has “destroyed countless ...

A former UN high commissioner for human rights tells The BMJ that the war on drugs has “completely failed” and that a public health focused approach is needed “The criminalisation of drugs doesn’t ...