Drug PolicyDrugs & Development“Matter of Life or Death”: The Public Health Costs of Disrupting US Aid in AfricaArmand Nsababaganwa.Apr 30, 2025On 20 January, American President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating a 90 day freeze and review of all…
Drug Policy“Starting to Brew”: How Decriminalisation Impacts People Using Drugs in CanadaFarihah Ali.Apr 29, 2025Stigma is a common experience in the lives of people who use drugs. It affects how they are treated by…
Drug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentNoboa’s Re-Election Means No End To Ecuador’s Drug WarNarcosis.Apr 29, 2025A 16-year-old boy, alongside his 17-year-old accomplice, sped down the streets in Jipijapa, southern Ecuador, leaving behind a brutal crime…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingPunjab Needs Healing: Drug Policy Struggles in IndiaKawal Deep Kour.Apr 28, 2025The harms of the Indian drug war are particularly harsh in Punjab, the western state bordering Pakistan, as state authorities…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentEuropean Harm Reduction Is Facing a Funding CrisisNoor Vissram.Apr 22, 2025Harm reduction has long been a cornerstone of European public health, minimising drug use risks like overdose deaths or preventing…
Drug PolicyAustralian Government Dismisses Decriminalisation Despite Widespread SupportRyan Hesketh.Apr 14, 2025Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) government found “substantial support” for a public health model featuring illicit drug decriminalisation, but steered…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentUS Study Highlights How Drug Criminalisation Prevents CareAndré Gomes.Apr 2, 2025A recent report from the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) explores the interrelated issues of addiction, mental health and homelessness, looking…
Coca & CocaineVin Mariani: From Health Tonic to Moral PanicRyan Hesketh.Mar 31, 2025Instead of a wine that makes you sleepy, imagine one that could keep you up and talking all night. Imagine…
PsychedelicsNew UK Ketamine Trials Explore Its Mental Health PotentialsRaina Yip.Mar 25, 2025Since ketamine was first synthesised in 1956, its effects have been extensively studied. Today, it is widely used as a…
Drug PolicyPsychedelicsCounting Down: PsychedeliCare Launches Citizen’s Campaign for Psychedelic TherapyRyan Hesketh.Mar 21, 202512 months, three proposals, one million signatures. That’s the target so that this time next year, the European Commission may…
Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentDrugs & Race“We Won’t Win” – A Pessimistic Outlook for the Black Future of Rio de JaneiroThaynara Santos.Mar 20, 2025 Just like Juscelino Kubitschek, former president of Brazil (1956-1961) and creator of the “50 Years in 5” plan which,…
Drug PolicyA Historic Vote at the CND: Colombia Challenges the Global Drug Control SystemIsabel Pereira Arana.Mar 19, 2025In the final hours of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 14, we were on the edge of…