Powerful psychotropic drugs are often the next step, even though their combined effects in young children haven’t been ...

Psilocybin is a chemical derived from some types of psilocybe mushrooms. Psilocybin is often ingested for its hallucinogenic effects, but many people are beginning to use it in microdoses to manage ...

Chilean customs display 40 kilograms of kratom powder, a popular NPS. Chilean authorities have seized a cluster of new psychoactive substances (NPS) rarely seen in Latin America in recent months, ...

The city of Hazel Park, Michigan made national headlines last week after its city council voted unanimously to decriminalize entheogens, or naturally occurring psychoactive drugs consumed for ...

Concerns have been raised about a prison's ability to deal with drugs after the death of an inmate from a psychoactive ...

For nearly a century, it's been known that drugs of abuse alter the immune system. Since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, however, an explosion of data has given rise to a rapidly ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Psychoactive drugs chemically alter the brain ...

Between 2022 and 2025, Israel’s addiction landscape shifts in nature : less centered on classic illicit drugs, more dominated ...

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with psychoactive drugs as a way of maintaining social cohesion and forging new ...

MDMA is part of a new wave of psychoactive drugs that show great potential for treating conditions such as severe depression and PTSD. But not everyone is convinced. And even if such drugs gain FDA ...

Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives. Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed ...