chemists
How Do Chemists Deal With Cough Syrup Junkies?
We spoke to a few chemists about what they did to prevent the abuse of easy-to-buy medications.
Inside the Lazy Lizard School of Hedonism
On the season finale of 'Hamilton's Pharmacopeia,' we meet up with famed LSD chemist Casey Hardison in the Nevada desert.
A Brief History of Meth
How an experimental asthma remedy became one of the world's most feared drugs.
China Has a Grey Market for Australian Baby Formula
In China, Australian baby formula is a luxury item that can sell for $100 per tin. Now tourists and students are making easy cash by buying up supermarket stock and selling it back home for four times what they paid.
This Is What It's Like Being Addicted to Laxatives
Laxative abuse is a common manifestation of eating disorders that we rarely talk about. But with the pills so easy to buy and become addicted to, and increasing numbers of young people using them, it's about time we started.
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.
Criminal Chlorination
There exist gentlemen scientists, who seek to further the field of psychoactive-drug synthesis in the privacy of their own homes. Here I present an interview with a clandestine chemist whose curiosity of forbidden molecules left him locked in a cage.
Great Medicinal Chemists of the 20th Century
Photos by Dan Meyer, retouching by Mike De Leon. Crystal engraving courtesy of Crystal Images USA.