(Medical Xpress) -- Better help with battling drug addiction could be at hand as a result of research underway at Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Bronwyn Kivell, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, is screening a number of anti-addiction compounds that may ultimately...

New drug may keep you sober no matter how much you've had to drink Chinese tree extract has long been used as a hangover cure. Now it is being turned into a 'sobriety pill' that could cure alcoholism. Imagine a pill that could instantly sober you up no matter how much you've had to drink, or a...

Flashback! Psychedelic research returns Four decades after Timothy Leary, LSD shows success in medical trials. Will the right completely trip? Kristof Kossut arrived at an unlikely address for his first psychedelic experience. The 60-year-old New Yorker and professional yachtsman opened the...

America outpaces every country in the world in the number of people it incarcerates. Many of those responsible for the ballooning prison population are low-level drug offenders. Since the majority of prisoners are characterized as non-violent offenders, critics of drug prohibition assert that...

Did the use of psychedelics lead to a computer revolution? Steve Jobs and a host of computer pioneers believed LSD helped their creativity – but coincidence does not imply causality You might be excused for thinking these are the words of a philosopher or a stoned Grateful Dead fan, but no...

Compensation for LSD treatment A 67-year-old woman is believed to have become the first Norwegian to receive compensation for the ongoing ill effects she has suffered for nearly 40 years after being treated with the hallucinogenic drug LSD in the 1960s. Newspaper Aftenposten reported that Gerd...

Shaman found guilty of supplying hallucinogenic drug August 11, 2011 - thisissouthdevon.co.uk A MIDDLE-AGED Shaman from Buckfastleigh faces a possible jail term after being convicted of producing and supplying a class A drug at a healing ceremony. Peter Aziz conjured up two brews of sacred...

Research Chemicals for Psychonauts: The Global Explosion of Designer Psychedelics Legal and semi-legal chemical analogs of psychedelic drugs are readily available on the Internet, and an active online community is experimenting with them and sharing reports. As regular readers of my column are...

A new book casts fresh light on an undercover operation that smashed one of the most extraordinary drug rings the world has ever seen and changed British policing forever. What was Operation Julie? It was hardly a typical drugs bust. When police from around the country swooped before dawn one...

LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' BERLIN—Patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out. Results from a pilot study presented here on Saturday at the International Headache Congress reveal that six patients treated with...

A group of four, who where heading to the TreatingYourself Expo cannabis trade show in Toronto, boarded a WestJet flight on June 2 with a vaporizer and proceeded to use it throughout the flight without any hassle from flight attendants or fellow passengers. All of them were travelling with a...

Magic mushroom’s positive effects lasting over a year, say researchers Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a...

Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government Campaign headed by actors, academics and lawyers says current drugs laws stigmatise people and damage communities Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in...

Study: Analysis of legal highs Guess what? According to this recent study in the UK, most legal highs do not contain what they advertise. Piperazines and caffeine are the most common subsances found in fake legal highs marketed as unlabeled research chemicals (what?). Is anyone surprised? The...

Psychiatrist Dr. Rick Strassman was the first scientist to conduct U.S. government-approved human research into hallucinogens and psychedelic drugs after the so-called War on Drugs. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers and is the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule Avi Solomon: Tell us...

WHILE sewage is not something you can set your watch by, it'll certainly tell you when the weekend has arrived. Last year Yves Levi and colleagues at the University of Paris-South found that Parisian waste water was awash with cocaine and its metabolites on Friday and Saturday nights (Forensic...

Breaking Convention 2011: Notes from a Psychedelic Conference The sprawling campus of the University of Kent, in Canterbury, became host to the UK’s first psychedelic consciousness conference on the second and third of April, 2011. The campus’ Wolfe building was a thronging hive, as all the...

(CNN) -- Willie Nelson's latest pot bust could be settled for a song and $100, a west Texas prosecutor said. "You can bet your ass I'm not going to be mean to Willie Nelson," Hudspeth County Attorney C.R. "Kit" Bramblett told CNN Monday, confirming his plea recommendation. Nelson, a treasured...

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) - One teen died and 10 teenagers and young adults were hospitalized Thursday after an apparent mass overdose on a designer hallucinogen at a suburban Minneapolis home, authorities said. Investigators said the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has identified the drug as...

An addictions expert in Alberta says the federal government needs to do more homework before it bans salvia, a potent hallucinogenic herb that's currently classified as a natural health product. Smoking salvia —also known as magic mint and diviner's sage — can produce a short but intense high...