Designer Drugs
Sewage Samples Reveal the Dutch, Australians Are Biggest Users of Synthetic Drugs
Study of wastewater around the 2019-20 New Year period reveals who is consuming which new psychoactive substances.
A 'bad batch' of synthetic weed turned part of Brooklyn into 'Zombieland'
At least 33 people in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood were hospitalized after apparently overdosing on synthetic marijuana.
What Year Is This? Cops Seize Bath Salts in Nova Scotia
Police have seen "a bit of a resurgence" in Pictou County.
The DEA Wants to Permanently Ban Flakka, the Drug Linked to Naked Freakouts in Florida
The DEA has moved to outlaw 10 chemicals commonly found in the cheap designer drug, but manufacturers will likely respond by tweaking their recipes.
On The Line: Nilo Tabrizy and Allie Conti Discuss Synthetic Marijuana
VICE News journalist Nilo Tabrizy and VICE staff writer Allie Conti joined 'On The Line' to discuss synthetic marijuana.
The Dangerous Rise of K2: America's Cheapest High
Through the lens of volunteer ambulance corps and harm reduction specialists in the city's outer boroughs, VICE News gets a glimpse of the challenges New York City is facing with rising K2 use.
Surprise: Now-Illegal 'Legal Highs' Are Widely Available on the Dark Web
As governments crack down on "new psychoactive substances," their presence on the dark web is inevitable.
The Best and Worst of This Year's Designer Drugs
We talked to psychonauts and browsed through specialty forums to see which substances made waves in 2014.
Inside New Zealand's Synthetic Drug Scene
"The pioneers of drug use were looking for a particular experience, and they found it after a journey. Now you just get the destination and miss the journey."
Designer Drug Users Could Stumble onto Cures for Mental Disorders
People are already willingly experimenting on themselves—the drug industry should harness that research and see if they're on to something.
A Young Chemist Explains How Legal Highs Work
Mathias develops and synthesizes potentially psychoactive chemicals for research purposes, but he says that you're better off taking mushrooms than anything he's cooked up.
The Motherboard Guide to New Psychoactive Substances
Designer drugs are being tweaked, multiplied, and injected into the internet's one-stop pharmacies so furiously that authorities are scrambling to rejigger existing global drug laws that just can't keep up with today's synthetic speed. Here's what you...