The dark side to your christmas night out

This year around 250,000 young adults will depart for far-flung shores. But while it can be an incredibly enriching experience, it can end in tragedy, with a rise in reported deaths from spiked drinks and recent reports of women being imprisoned for drug smuggling. Closer investigates how to keep safe…

If you haven’t had time to keep up with Facebook, X or Instagram, we’ve done it for you…

Festival season is in full swing and if the youth of today had a drug of choice, ketamine would be it. So popular is the drug among those under 30 that Gen Z have been dubbed Gen K. But as numbers of those using the dissociative anaesthetic recreationally soar, so too do numbers of those who can’t stop. As specialist crisis clinics open across the country, Catriona Innes meets those at the centre of this story

Standing in the kitchen in my short-sleeved yellow satin blouse as the Spice Girls blared from the stereo, I saw my friends sipping White Lightning cider and reached for a can. ‘Try it, you’ll soon ge

The days are warmer, the evenings are brighter, and many of us will be planning on relaxing with friends, family – and a few cheeky drinks. But even if you think you’re in control of your alcohol cons

Kenneth Law was a seemingly ordinary man, living in Canada and working as a chef. He was a university graduate and, according to his CV, he’d previously worked in aerospace. But Law is accused of harb