2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on policing and harm reduction.

The government is banning the sale of single-use disposable vapes in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland

The government must provide an emergency fund for families waiting for the ASGSF

Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) are novel psychoactive substances (NPS) that are highly potent and associated with a range of severe toxicities. SC use, which is common in UK prisons and homeless communi...

The evidence points to changes in the drug supply

Police say they tested the gnome after finding it among suspected narcotics.

Testing hundreds of confiscated vapes in 38 schools in England reveals 1 in 6 (16.6%) contained spice

The exodus is real.

Toxicologists have warned of a sharp rise in drug overdose deaths in England involving a group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Nitazenes have been found as contaminants in street heroin...

Staff at Brook House had warned it was ‘only a matter of time’ before someone died as a result of taking the drug