Social Media Ideas for Drug Culture

Vast majority of hard drug users don’t think about crime that got their drugs to them

Eighty-seven percent of young hard-drug users - a majority - are barely or not at all aware that their consumption forms part of a broader illegal drug market.

To Find Honest Talk About Drugs, Go to a Music Festival

A reporter and photographer camped out at a four-day rave to see harm reduction policy carried out in real time.

Pink cocaine, apple-flavoured ketamine and triple-strength ecstasy: How festival drugs went supersonic

As festivals get underway across the country this bank holiday weekend, Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to toxicology experts about the rise of polydrug use, what’s really in these il...

The First Drug Dealer You Ever Met

Most of us met our first drug dealer at the dinner table. Four classroom cases ask why we excuse alcohol in ways we would never excuse any other drug.

Dope crisis now a security threat…minister warns, as epidemic disproportionately impacts the youth

Emmanuel Marambe DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR ZIMBABWE’s escalating drug crisis has now evolved from being a public health issue into a grave threat... To access this content, ple...

Cannabis craze sweeping Scotland sparks fears for kids with drugs made to look like sweeties and cake

A number of dealers are using social media accounts to sell the drugs.

Drug dealers handed stiff sentences

TAPIWA CHIRUME THREE people have been convicted in separate drug-related cases in Harare, with two men jailed for six years over dagga possession and a woman sentenced for dealing...

Back Matanda-Moyo on drug war

THE drug menace sweeping across the country has long transcended a mere public health crisis; it has mutated into a profound national security threat that eats away at the very fou...

Education as a tool for preventing drug abuse

Earliest known drug use may have trapped prehistoric foragers in a ‘vicious cycle’

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The prehistoric remains of two foragers found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contain telltale signs that humans began using a mind-altering...

'F. Meth': New media campaign launched to combat drug harm

The nationwide prevention campaign is part of the government's plan to "disrupt international supply, sharpen enforcement and reduce demand" for meth.

Mozambique faces rising drug use as trafficking routes fuel local addiction

Hospital admissions linked to drug use rose 38 percent last year to more than 32,280, according to government figures that experts say reflect only a fraction of the problem.

Young Amsterdammers drink less as ketamine gains ground

Young people in Amsterdam are drinking less alcohol, but drugs like ketamine have become far more popular at the same...

Drug abuse among Malaysian under-15s a growing concern, says Saifuddin Nasution

MACHANG, Oct 17 — The trend of drug abuse among those under the age of 15 is increasingly concerning and requires...

'Crack's been bubbling under for the last few years. Now it appears to be the drug of choice'

The M.E.N.'s Damon Wilkinson on a worrying new drugs trend emerging on the streets of Manchester

From classrooms to cartels: How drug dealers are exploiting Zanzibar students

A new study and reports from anti-narcotics experts have revealed that illicit drugs have crossed street boundaries and infiltrated primary and secondary schools, raising concern a...

LSD – from counterculture to clinical trials

From psychiatric research to counterculture and secret CIA mind-control experiments, LSD makes its way back to the lab.

An old drug is causing brand new problems in the gay party scene

Quaaludes—aka "disco biscuits"—are apparently making a comeback.

Taiwan confronts surge in drug-driving as new narcotics rapidly emerge

“Zombie vapes”, online dealers and new, unlisted narcotics. CNA examines how deadly drug-driving cases are a visible sign of a much wider drug problem in Taiwan.

Drug-laced sweets among haul of illegal goods seized in Bristol

Investigators say such items are often linked to "wider criminal networks"

Rimbi Communities Rally Against the Growing Drug and Substance Abuse Menace

By Artwell Chingwara Sithole| The usually busy trading points of Rimbi and Mbeure shops fell into unusual silence as more … Continue reading "Rimbi Communities Rally Against the Gr...

 Are our drug laws making things worse?

A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that a section of Canada’s Controlled Drug and Substances Act was unconstitutional, and gave Ottawa six months to fix it.  The ruling came after a...

Drug fight stepped up

Brighton MuronzereyiCHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES are stepping up efforts to combat drug and substance abuse through the training of provincial committees tasked with coordinating the n...

America’s changing synthetic-drug supply

America’s changing synthetic-drug supply Oct. 18, 2026 – Reporting from Columbus and Chicago, the BBC examines a shifting street-drug supply where fentanyl is mixed with sedatives...