Detectives are looking at whether the Russian anti-anxiety drug Phenibut is behind a mass overdose of students at a private school on Queensland's Gold Coast. Police said the seven teenagers took ...

Billed as safe and legal, the popular supplement has some hidden dangers. Delynn Willis had suffered from anxiety for years, but she’d always been wary of treating it with drugs like Valium and Xanax.

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THE Russian drug linked to the Gold Coast school mass overdose is so rare Australian experts don’t know how to treat its “peculiar effects”. While police are waiting on toxicology results to confirm ...

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Houston, we have a chill pill. Back in the 1960s, Soviet scientists developed a sweet little supplement that they stocked in the space kits of cosmonauts — the Russian version of an astronaut — to ...

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The quantity of phenibut, a potentially harmful drug, increased in three of four over-the-counter dietary supplements after the FDA warned manufacturers about the drug, a study found. Before the ...

Four Gold Coast high school students have been rushed to hospital after overdosing on prescription medication. The female Southport State High students were taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital ...

Police have said a Russian anti-anxiety drug is on their radar as they investigate a mass overdose involving students at a Gold Coast private school. Seven boys, aged 14 and 15, were taken to hospital ...