What your teens are really getting delivered

With young people using apps to order their next hit, how worried should we be about the rise of ketamine?

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

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

Joanne’s beautiful daughter was the life of the party, but hidden pressures led to tragedy…

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…

More women in their 40s are saying yes to sex clubs. Ellie Fennell joins the party