Bangladesh Sets Death Penalty for Online Drug Crimes
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On 16 August 2026, an officer from Bangladesh’s Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) posed as a customer and ordered three…
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No Progress After 2 Years of South African Cannabis Act
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South Africa is often described as one of the African countries that decriminalised cannabis, but that description becomes less straightforward…
Charges Dropped Against The Drug User Liberation Front
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British Columbia’s Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray’s decision to throw out the charges against Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, the…
Angel Dust Memories: True Tales of PCP in North America
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The dissociative drug PCP, better known as angel dust, has fascinated me for years. It wasn’t always that way. Initially,…
FDA Hearing on Psychedelics: Concerns, But Overwhelmingly Positive
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Last week, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public hearing on the potential future use of psychedelics.…
Study Finds Psychedelic Decriminalisation Linked to Improved Wellbeing and Reduced Harm
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A newly published community survey of individuals who use psychedelics suggests that local decriminalisation efforts are overwhelmingly associated with perceived…
It’s Time for Harm Reduction to Focus on New People Injecting Drugs
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The period right after someone starts injecting drugs is especially risky. People are still learning how to inject, how to…
SR-17018 and the DEA’s ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ Against Novel Opioids
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration is waging what critics describe as a “scorched-earth campaign” against a growing class of obscure…
Who Gets to Survive a Drug Overdose in Lebanon?
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In Lebanon, the “war on drugs” is well and alive, with punitive drug laws, a security-first approach and the demonization…
‘Recovery TikTok’: How Can Drug Treatment Services Support Young People?
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For many young people today, support for people who use drugs often begins not with intervention from a doctor or…
The Alberta Recovery Model: The Trojan Horse of Privatised Drug Treatment
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When the United Conservative Party (UCP) government took power in the Western Canadian province of Alberta in 2019, harm reduction…
Getting High on Perfume in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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It was already around 2:30am – but the party was just getting started in the favela of Rocinha in Rio…