The 16th issue of Curiosity, Wits University’s research magazine, is themed: #Drugs. In this issue we highlight the diversity, scope, and multi-dimensional nature of drug-related research at Wits University. We delve into advances in HIV drugs and the economic potential of cannabis respectively; reveal innovations in drug delivery, drug adherence, psychedelic therapeutics, and what horses have to do with snake venom, and birth control with mosquitoes; and we interrogate the dark side of drugs in research about addiction, doping in sport, and how those legal but lethal drugs – alcohol and cigarettes – permeate our lives as do ‘fixes’ in food and the modern proclivity to ‘pop pills’ for obesity or for nutritional supplementation.
Produced by Wits Communications, Curios.ty is a print and digital magazine that tells the stories of pioneering research through the voices of the talented researchers, students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
