Kids would come to school acting unusually hyperactive or agitated, said Saul Levin, a senior deputy director of D.C.’s Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration. Some, he said, would become so ...

NPS, colloquially known as "designer drugs," "legal highs," "herbal highs" and "bath salts" are drugs not covered by the UN's 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs or the 1971 Convention on ...

In Britain, anyone looking to get high without the criminal side effects can go online or walk into a head shop and buy perfectly legal alternatives to a whole host of illegal drugs, from marijuana to ...

How does one identify something no one has a test for? Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs but evade law enforcement. The chemical structure variations that help these ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2025 — How do you identify something no one has a test for? Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs but evade law enforcement. The chemical structure ...

As authorities crack down on illicit drugs, experts have issued an alert on the use of the synthetic stimulant pentylone, as new research finds a 75% increase in detections across Australia. As ...

Deadly designer drugs could be more easily detected using a high-tech new method, say scientists. Some new drugs replicate the effects of known illicit substances, but can't presently be identified in ...

LOS ANGELES -- A partial autopsy has revealed that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple substances in his system when he plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, ...

No-one could claim to be unaware of the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID): drugs can increase the time needed to react, impair coordination, alertness, and cognition, and lower ...

Mass spectrometer instruments (top image) can help detect known, illicit drugs in human urine. For new psychoactive substances, a computer-predicted database provides theoretical mass spectra (bottom ...