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drugs and alcohol

Emergency treatment for overdoses may be improving

Health

Does the drop in US drug deaths mean the opioid crisis is ending?

Overdose deaths in the US have dropped for the first time in two decades, but many people are still dependent on painkillers and struggling to get them legally

Analysis

Two heads with some dots between them

Technology

AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another's shoes

News

Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green

Comment

Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green

Comment

Woman reading book

Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays

Culture

orangutans

Life

Orangutan mothers tell infants where to go by scratching themselves

News

Alcohol may impair your ability to judge how others are feeling

Mind

You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily

News

Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show

Environment

Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show

Culture

Pharmacist choosing medicines

Health

Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments

Analysis

From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

Health

From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

Regulars

Amyloidosis involves the build-up of sticky protein

Health

Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use

A therapy that uses RNA interference to treat the rare condition hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis has been approved for NHS use in England

News

Health

US teens may be finding it harder to buy cannabis after legalisation

News

Technology

A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft

News

Definition

Psychedelic

Definition

Psilocybin

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