Monica Barratt is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Substance Misuse Prevention and Service Improvement Grants Fund, and the National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund.

The drug emerged after 17-year-old Henry Kwan jumped to his death in Killara, on Sydney's North Shore, after ingesting what he believed was a tab of LSD in 2013. It was, in fact, NBOMe.

The synthetic drug is called NBOMe and is also known as "Smiles" or "25i". It is marketed to teens as legal LSD. Monday, Everett Police put out a warning after finding it in their city.

where the teen died after taking two doses of the hallucinogen NBOME. “What this is is a synthetic drug that is ever-changing and a real Russian roulette,” said Jeanine, who in two short weeks ...

NBOMes didn’t spread throughout the drug scene until 2010 when word of 25I-NBOMe began spreading in online forums. Since then, they have been known for their dangerous nature. Trip reports ...

Police are investigating the drug NBOME as possibly connected to the death of 16-year-old Center Grove sophomore Samuel Motsay. Motsay was found unresponsive Sunday in the Eagle Trace community of ...

EVERETT, Mass. -- Police are warning that a potentially deadly designer drug -- NBOMe -- has been marketed to school-aged children in the Boston region. CBS Boston reports that police in Everett ...

told Medscape Medical News that she is worried by the appearance of drugs such as 25I-NBOMe, a concern exacerbated by the fact that novel compounds are appearing every year. "When they are known ...

According the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the first encounter law enforcement had with 25i, also known as NBOMe, occurred in June 2011. The hallucinogenic drug, which is often sold ...

IT’S so potent it makes you think you can fly — and while you’ve likely never heard of it, it’s poisoning minds in a city near you. When Australian backpacker Rye Hunt mistakenly ingested ...