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Amphetamines detected in exhaled breath from drug addicts: A new possible method for drugs-of-abuse testing Abstract Olof Beck1, Kathinka Leine1,...

EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction) has published several drug profiles of substances. Most of them are...

The Office of National Drug Control Policy released its 2010 National Drug Control Strategy. In the preface, ONDCP Director Gil...

East Africa is no longer just a convenient transit point for hard drugs to the developed world. More and more...

The Conservative Canadian government plans to restore mandatory minimum prison sentences for small-time pot growers, the Canadian Press reported May...

The gateway hypothesis proposes that use of cannabis directly increases the risk of consuming hard drugs. Researchers in Norway tested...

Substance use among secondary school students in an urban setting in Nigeria: prevalence and associated factors Oshodi OY, Aina OF,...

Increasingly sophisticated techniques to conceal and smuggle cocaine into Europe are reviewed in a new EMCDDAAEuropol market analysis – Cocaine:...

A record number of new drugs was officially reported in 2009 to the EMCDDA and Europol via the EU early-warning...

Police this morning swooped on 35 businesses and numerous residential addresses throughout the country as search warrants were executed as...