It’s too soon to blame paracetamol for rising childhood asthma rates
Alok Jha: Research has so far failed to establish that paracetamol increases the severity of asthma symptoms in children
DrinkSavvy: how your straw could help you stay safe
New drinkware changes color and pattern in the presence of common 'date-rape' drugs GHB, ketamine, or Rohypnol
We don’t know if antidepressants work, so stop bashing them
Pete Etchells: Recent attacks on antidepressants simplify a complicated picture about their effectiveness, and people with depression suffer for it
Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
Is the current epidemic of depression and hyperactivity the result of disease-mongering by the psychiatric profession and big pharma, asks Will Self. Does psychiatry have any credibility left at all?
Nitrous oxide: how ‘hippy crack’ became the kids’ drug of choice
Sniffing the gas from balloons is currently all the rage. But is it legal? And, more importantly, is it safe?
Board game aims to get young people talking about health issues
Zones encourages young people to work together to discuss issues and find answers to teen health topics, writes Jo Arden
Drugs policymakers of the 1980s knew the score
Mary O'Hara: This is not the time to undermine harm reduction strategies such as the needle exchange programme, bravely, and surprisingly, initiated by Thatcher and her Tory government
Is Viagra about to lose its pulling power in the UK?
Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, is shortly to lose its patent protection in the UK. So how will it affect the company's performance?
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power – review
The web has transformed drug use in profound and unsettling ways, finds Carole Cadwalladr
Pfizer will offer Viagra online in attempt to counter illicit pills
Maker of erectile dysfunction treatment say counterfeit pills available online can contain printer ink and pesticides
The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers
Could an unlicensed mind pill restore the energy lost to multiple sclerosis? For novelist MJ Hyland, who feared her working life was over, it was worth the risk…
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power – review
Steven Poole on a fascinating and funny study of the new drug scene
Students: just say no to sugar
Forget illegal drugs, students are overdosing on sugar. Little do they know that binging on sweet food is a serious form of substance abuse
Why are Britons more susceptible to disease?
Report reveals smoking, diet, alcohol and drugs are the main contributors to the UK's below average healthy life expectancy
Painkiller addiction: the plague that is sweeping the US
Ed Pilkington: Prescription pill overdoses are killing 15,000 Americans a year, and the toll is growing