Please could you give a brief introduction to mephedrone? Mephedrone is a fairly new designer drug which has been around for a few years. It exploded in popularity in Europe (and particularly in the ...

Contrary to popular belief among recreational drug users, mephedrone has several important differences when compared with MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy. These differences mean that mephedrone could ...

January 18, 2012 — Despite considerable cognitive side effects associated with the street drug mephedrone, many young adults in the United Kingdom (UK) continue to use the synthetic stimulant, new ...

Pharmaceutical scientists have discovered that the recently reclassified drug mephedrone varies in quality so much that users could be at risk of overdosing. Six samples were tested, and although ...

Mephedrone, a key ingredient in the designer-drug mix sold as "bath salts" or as other substances, induces methamphetamine-like cravings in rats. But mephedrone isn't exactly like meth, cocaine, ...

Mephedrone is the hottest street drug in the UK. The legal drug isn't sold like a drug, but marketed as plant food and bath salts. On the street mephedrone is called 'meow meow' or 'plant fertilizer'.

The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet focuses on the pressure put on the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to ban the recreational drug mephedrone, despite the absence of a direct ...

Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) is a fairly new “party” drug that has exploded in popularity over the last few years. On the street, it has a variety of names: Drone, M-Cat, Bubbles, Meow. It’s ...

This might some as something of a surprise to those who are invested in the war against drugs but the inert gas helium actually causes more deaths each year in the UK than cannabis, ecstasy and ...

Gujarat ATS dismantles a mephedrone drug manufacturing operation in Uttar Pradesh, arresting two individuals and seizing a large quantity of narcotics, highlighting the ongoing fight against drug ...