A mother caught trying to smuggle £1,400 worth of the synthetic drug spice into prison for her boyfriend has been spared jail after claiming her teenage daughter suffers from 'separation anxiety'.

The PHA is focussing in particular on the dangers of vaping ‘Spice’, a synthetic drug which mimics the effects of cannabis.

Just like with the main psychoactive ingredient in traditional marijuana, THC, the psychoactive ingredients in synthetic marijuana bind to the brain's CB1 receptors. Because spice is so much ...

In North Dakota, two teens were dead within days of each other. Investigations turned up mysterious white substances and uncovered a new world of drug dealing.

Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a recognized heavy duty medical painkiller and sedative that can be many times more potent than morphine. The United States on Friday called on dozens of countries to ...

However, a common thread unites these regions: The pervasive rise of synthetic drugs. Synthetic drugs are the future of drug trafficking. Plant-based drugs, such as cocaine, heroin and marijuana ...

It's Friday evening and two women have just overdosed on the synthetic drug Spice. The drug, which mimics marijuana, is also known as the zombie drug - and you can quickly see why. The two women ...

Police issued a warning after reports of children as young as 12 being supplied with vapes containing a "potentially life-threatening" drug Police ... the illegal synthetic drug Spice.

Doctors are warning of several novel and potent synthetic opioids that could require more than one dose of the overdose reversal drug naloxone to counteract. A report published at the end of ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Li, Cheng, Yu and ...