Background Benzodiazepine misuse is a growing public health problem, with increases in
benzodiazepine-related overdose deaths and emergency room visits in recent years …

Background Users of darknet markets refer to product quality as one of the motivations for
buying drugs there, and vendors present quality as a selling point. However, what users …

Drug use is widely understood in terms of its subjects, substances and settings. But what
happens when these distinctions start to blur? Injecting Bodies in More-than-Human Worlds …

People who use drugs understand drugs and drug use in ways that are often different to the
way knowledge of drug use is constructed within the dominant medico-legal discourse. Their …

Background Benzodiazepines are a widely prescribed psychoactive drug; in the US, both
medical and nonmedical use of benzodiazepines has increased markedly in the past 15 …

Owing to a lack of research on benzodiazepines, the National Forum on Drug-Related
Deaths commissioned work addressing why benzodiazepines are common in DRDs and …

BACKGROUND: Preventing the onset of injecting drug use is an important public health
objective yet there is little understanding of the process that leads to injection initiation. This …

Background Current research on drug use emphasizes harms and often neglects its
pleasures and benefits. This one-sided view has supported policies that criminalize …

In 2007, a young woman, Annabel Catt, died after consuming a capsule sold as “ecstasy”
that contained para-methoxyamphetamine. In this paper, we describe how this death was …

Background Impulsivity and sensitivity to reward situate at the marrow of pathology of
substance use disorders (SUDs). This study examined the role of impulsivity and sensitivity …