Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry
Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.
- Article
Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Nicotine Addiction
Date: 1968-1989Reference: PP/WDP/F/6/2Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Ephemera
Nicotine / HIT.
Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Date: 1993Reference: SA/ASH/X/1/84Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Nicotine Levels in Body Fluids
Date: 1975-1982Reference: PP/WDP/F/6/4Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Books
Nicotine : mechanism of action : background.
Date: [1998?]