Addicted to chemsex
An increasing number of gay men are taking part in multi-day, drug-fuelled orgies – despite the health risks. Paul Flynn reports on a powerful new documentary, and what it says about love and...
View ArticleLegal highs: the craze for laughing gas
It's a balmy and typically boisterous July evening in the party resort of Ayia Napa, in Cyprus. The streets are packed with giddy, sun-scorched holidaymakers, and British teenager Rebecca and her...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleDriver jailed for killing pensioner crossing Glasgow road
A man who knocked down and killed a 78-year-old pedestrian has been jailed for three years and nine months. Sergej Rutkovskij ploughed into Robert Taylor on Glasgow's Gallowgate, at its junction with...
View ArticlePublic paychecks: Search through Orange County government salaries
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View ArticleSummer Concerts and Party Drug a Dangerous Mix (University of Connecticut...
(Source: University of Connecticut Health Center) Summer is peak concert season, a time when illicit drug use tends to spike. Professor C. Michael White, head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in...
View ArticleWhat it's like having dysphagia — the disease that makes it feel like you're...
Toast is an unlikely agent of death. But there you are in your kitchen on a Saturday morning, inexplicably choking on a mouthful, trying not to panic. The day begins like any other for Samantha...
View ArticlePSNI in dark over drug that's killed 21, inquest is told
Police have been unable to identify how a sinister new drug that has killed 21 people is brought into Northern Ireland or who is supplying it, an inquest has heard. A top detective expressed...
View ArticleNASA Announces New Director of Ames Research Center (NASA - The National...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Monday the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next director of the agency's Ames...
View ArticleAlberta man risks life using experimental drugs – then writes online reviews
Many of the 45 vials contain research chemicals, experimental drugs that produce euphoria. Swaths of them are not regulated by federal laws. Some are available for sale only on the dark web. An...
View ArticleKilled... by drug bought for price of a pint
The sparkling blue eyes and relaxed smile frozen in time by the camera are memories the family of Alice Devlin will always treasure. A precious photograph, taken four days before her death last summer,...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleNew year honours 2015: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticleFlakka is a dangerous drug, but it doesn't turn you into a zombie
“Bath salts,” or synthetic street drugs with amphetamines. Stories of horrific crimes resulting from drug use have been propagated by the media for over a century. Such stories began with cocaine in...
View Article‘Drunk’ pilots arrested at Glasgow Airport appear in court
Two pilots arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a transatlantic passenger jet from Scotland to Canada have appeared in court. Jean-Francois Perreault,...
View ArticleSmuggling star: Champ in drug bust
A world champion Kiwi bodybuilder has been caught smuggling about $100,000 worth of illegal party drugs into the country. Stephen Michael Raymond Orton, 24, also regarded as one of Christchurch's top...
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