‘Edna’ helps doctors find 50 new psychoactive drugs being used in Australia
Dr Jessamine Soderstrom is one of two doctors behind Australia’s national program for identifying new illicit drugs appearing on the black market. It is called…
Tag: Party drugs
Changing face of overdose: Patients in their 70s dying from stimulant drug misuse, says expert
“When I first started researching overdoses, I was told there was nothing to study, that young people dropped down dead from overdoses because they didn’t…
Medical Must-See: Clearing the air after a rare cannabis reaction
Smoking more than 10 cannabis joints a day for three days left a computer science student in a perilous situation after he developed acute eosinophilic…
Recreational use of prescription stimulants at new peak, research finds
People who use illicit stimulants are increasingly turning to diverted ADHD drugs, a national survey suggests. Some 54% of people who regularly used ecstasy or…
Medical Must-See: Nangs mangle man’s spinal cord 
In a cautionary tale for patients who use ‘nangs’, several months of heavy nitrous oxide use left an American man unable to stand up. The…
New street drug discovered in Canberra is ‘ketamine’s cousin’, doctors say
A new recreational drug related to ketamine has been identified for the first time thanks to Australia’s only fixed-site pill-testing clinic, clinicians say.  They…
‘Stuff of nightmares’: Doctor’s alarm after police seize 11kg of pure powdered fentanyl
Emergency specialist Associate Professor David Caldicott says the opioid is 'very dangerous' in the wrong hands.
‘Razzle-dazzle science and a chat’: Dr David Caldicott on Australia’s first pill-testing clinic
The technology's weak spot? Oregano, apparently.
Pandemic party time? How Australia’s illicit drugs scene changed with COVID-19
Addiction experts analyse the set-backs and the advances that coincided with lockdown.
Aussies have high use of new ‘party drugs’: study
Little information on toxicity of psychoactive substances like mephedrone, says SA researcher.
