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 ...

(Medical Xpress)—The party drug mephedrone can cause lasting damage to the brain, according to new research led by the University of Sydney. "Mephedrone is highly addictive in the worst possible way.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid an ever increasing number of reported deaths linked to the drug mephedrone, the UK government yesterday announced plans to make the 'legal high' legal no longer. After receiving the ...

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 ...

Since the recent ban on mephedrone, many so-called "legal substitutes" available on the internet are in fact banned cathinones (chemically related to amphetamines) and just as risky, warn experts in a ...

Mephedrone is likely to be made a Class B drug, the Government's chief drugs advisor has indicated. Professor Les Iversen, the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said his ...

The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has recovered an additional 329.55 grams of mephedrone during the police remand of an accused arrested in a courier-based drug trafficking case, taking the total seizure in ...

The special public prosecutor in a 2020 narcotics case on Thursday filed an application in court seeking hospitalisation records of a Yerwada jail inmate who fled from a medical facility in Pune after ...