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Prescription monitoring system to curb drug abuse in Australia

Real-time monitoring for drugs like OxyContin, morphine and Xanax is intended to enable doctors and pharmacists in Victoria to curb addiction and offer help

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Wireless signal sent through meat fast enough to watch Netflix

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Wireless signal sent through meat fast enough to watch Netflix

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Ian Burkhart moves his hand using a sleeve of electrodes attached to implant in his brain

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I’m the first quadriplegic person to regain thought-control of my arm

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Playing Guitar Hero

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Brain implant lets paralysed man move his hand with his thoughts

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New Scientist checking marijuana plants at a federal marijuana facility at the University of Mississippi

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DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

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It’s crazy that latest LSD study is first to scan brains on acid

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Multicoloured brain scans

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First LSD brain imaging study offers insights into consciousness

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Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

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Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

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Big Ben poppers

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Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

Plus quantum tape unravels, a knife for women, Neil deGrasse Tyson's painful tweets, airy promises from breathing guru, digital teeth, and more

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The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

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US introduces measures to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic

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Drug may have hit wrong brain target in French clinical trial

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MRSA superbug’s resistance to antibiotics is broken

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