Opioids

As the UK heads towards an opioid crisis, Scotland has announced it will be opening drug consumption rooms. Here’s what happens inside a facility like that.

Podcast: Our resident drug columnist Simon Doherty joins us for a chat about opioids, Gen Z sobriety and, er, the man who took 40,000 pills.

The Taliban is clamping down on heroin production. UK experts warn this could lead to an explosion of dangerous synthetic opioids.

Jerry Martin had a radical plan to reduce overdose deaths in Vancouver, Canada, taking the drug laws into his own hands.

Available on the dark web, n-pyrrolidino etonitazene is doing the rounds, and recently led to a tragic fatality in Hull – one that has raised yet more questions on the UK’s approaches to drug laws and regulations.