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What It's Like to Self-Medicate with Illegal Drugs
According to a number of studies, around two-thirds of problematic drug users report childhood physical or sexual abuse. These figures need to be taken seriously.
The Drug Users Taking Advantage of the UK's New Lenient Policing Policies
Two British police forces have started referring people caught with a personal amount of drugs to educational workshops rather than sending them to court.
Politics and money are holding up America's plan to fight opioid addiction
Republicans and Democrats can't agree on how much money should be spent on drug treatment programs.
Magic Mushrooms Could Be the Future of Antidepressants
We spoke to Dr. Mark Bolstridge, a clinical psychiatrist searching for alternative and unusual treatments for depression.
What It Was Like Being a Test Subject in One of the Earliest LSD Experiments
Doctors and nurses in the province used to be tripping out all the time. Now years later, LSD as medicine could be back.
A 'Habitual Drunkard' Law Is Keeping Homeless Alcoholics on the Streets in Virginia
More than 4,700 people have been arrested under Virginia's "habitual drunkard" law, which makes it a crime for them to buy, consume, or possess alcohol.
Black Magic and Chicken Blood: Photos of My Week with Sierra Leone's Witch Doctors
A gallery of photographer Olivia Acland's latest work from Sierra Leone where she visited doctors that use a combination of black magic and herbal medicines to cure the sick.
Are We (Finally) About to Start Studying Marijuana as a Treatment for PTSD?
An interview with medical marijuana researcher Dr. Sue Sisley.
We Meet The Parents Medicating Their Kids with Weed on the First Episode of 'WEEDIQUETTE' on VICELAND
Watch the first episode of 'WEEDIQUETTE' on VICELAND, where we meet families using hyper-potent weed oil to treat their children's life-threatening cancer.
Why Isn't America Doing the One Thing That Would Reduce Heroin Deaths Right Now?
Addicts are needlessly dying of overdose because so many powerful people view "drugs to fight drugs" as suspect.
This Mental Illness Makes Mirrors Lie and Drives Patients to Suicide
Body dysmorphic disorder is more than vanity — it's compared to obsessive compulsive disorder, but with higher rates of depression and suicide.
What No One Tells You About Life After Mental Illness
No one ever really "recovers" from a mental illness, but we need to get better at talking about how you get your life back.