Etichetta: drugs
Dutch court jails drugs gang who built torture room and cells in containers
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A Dutch court has sentenced 11 men to between one and nine years for maintaining an “underworld prison” with a torture chamber, hidden in shipping containers, in a case that shocked the Netherlands. The case revolved ...
Dreamachine review – as close to state-funded psychedelic drugs as you can get
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The entire population of Britain is to be given LSD in a government-sponsored attempt to cheer us up after the pandemic and make us forget about inflation. Bene, quasi. Dreamachine, one of 10 national projects in Unb...
How we made Human Traffic: ‘The first question I asked in the auditions was: have you ever taken drugs?'
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I wanted to make a film about what me and my friends got up to on weekends. The 90s club scene was amazing. The rave generation was about love, the ecstasy worked and the music was underground – advertising hadn’t rui...
The Observer view on how to solve the postcode lottery of HRT drugs
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For generations, any talk of “the change”, as it was euphemistically dubbed, was strictly taboo. Millions of women suffering brain fog, sleeplessness and mood swings were forced to soldier on in the face of unsympathe...
‘There’s help in place’: does rugby league have a drugs problem?
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Jamie Acton could not have been clearer. “You’re probably abnormal in the rugby league world if you haven’t taken drugs at some point, whether that is socially or performance‑enhancing,” the former Leigh forward said ...
The War on Drugs review – wistful, immersive rock turned up to 11
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The War on Drugs are a band made up of visible mechanisms and processes, like a giant skeleton watch or widescreen MRI scan. Tonight, the band’s linchpin, singing guitarist Adam Granduciel, lurches around inside a cit...
The War on Drugs review – cosmic WTF moments turn arena rock on its head
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As frontman Adam Granduciel notes from the stage, 10 years ago the War on Drugs were playing a tiny room at London’s Corsica Studios nightclub. Now here they are: Grammy winners packing out the O2, an ascent no one wo...
John Oliver: ‘Street drugs are an absolute mess right now’
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John Oliver discussed the many systemic problems that face Americans battling drug addiction and made a plea for rapid change. The Last Week Tonight host spoke about the duality of using drugs, after showing a dated ...
Taylor Hawkins: drugs found in body of Foo Fighters drummer
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Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters drummer, aveva 10 different substances in his body at the time of his death, Colombian officials have said. The 50-year-old was on the South American leg of the band’s world tour when hi...
Women and young adults propel huge rise in use of anti-anxiety drugs
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The number of people in the UK using drugs to combat anxiety is soaring, driven by major increases among women and young adults, nuovi spettacoli di ricerca. Women are more than twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with anxi...
No drugs, booze, sex or swearing: will Heartstopper rewrite the young love rulebook?
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Heartstopper is the anti-Euphoria. The upcoming Netflix teen drama – about a budding romance between two school friends – is as wholesome and uplifting as the headline-grabbing US high-school sensation is bleak and ri...
Hong Kong shops ration food and drugs to curb panic buying amid Covid lockdown fears
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Two of Hong Kong’s largest consumer retail chains have started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as Covid-19 cases s...
Met commander who wrote drugs strategy faces sack for taking drugs
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A senior Metropolitan police commander who wrote his force’s current drug strategy faces the sack after being accused of taking cannabis, LSD and magic mushrooms. Commander Julian Bennett – who oversaw the dismissal o...
Kamila Valieva’s choreographer says talented skater has no need for drugs
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Kamila Valieva is so talented she does not need to take drugs, her choreographer has insisted, as the brilliant 15-year-old Russian skater waits to see whether she will be sent home from the Winter Games. The court of...
Killed by a pill bought on Snapchat: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens
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Fourteen-year-old Alondra Salinas had set out her new white sneakers and packed her backpack the night before the first day of in-person high school when police say she responded to an offer on Snapchat for blue pills...
The Tories don’t want a modern drugs strategy – they prefer outdated macho rhetoric
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For Oscar Wilde, the tragic paradox of Victorian philanthropists was that their “remedies do not cure the disease … Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.” He could easily have been talking about the British ...