Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Digital words with Constellations panellists
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With the stellar HRI conference Constellations starting tomorrow, TalkingDrugs had the opportunity to catch up with some of the panellists…
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“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment Facilities
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As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [September-October 2021]
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On October 15, in Orenburg, Russia, FSB officers came to the home of two human rights activists – the head…
Taliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation?
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In 2000, the Taliban were in power and due to the official ban on opium cultivation, the world market fell…
How Gender Affects the Way We Use Drugs
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A person’s sex and gender have a significant bearing on the way that they interact with drugs, from first encounters,…
An Insight into Colombia’s Drug Policy
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This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
Zimbabwean Government On a War Path with Drug Lords
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The Zimbabwean government has approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach to address the rampant misuse of illicit drugs in the…
The Office of National Drug Control Policy must recognise its actions before creating any change
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In 1988 the U.S. Congress passed with bipartisan support the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. This omnibus bill cemented the country’s punitive and…
Even in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy Debate
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The war on drugs is deeply unpopular. 2021 looks to continue to be a pivotal year for reform. Nineteen…
Drug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in Brazil
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As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…
The Uncovered Truth: How the opium poppy cultivation in Kyrgyzstan ended
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TalkingDrugs is excited to present to its readers an extract from Sputnik.kg on the origins of opium cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.…
The Great De-Vape: Why Vaping Will Be Banned From This Friday
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In October 2021, Australia decided to ban open access to vapes, now requiring a medical prescription to purchase one. Walking…