Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentHow to Regulate Drugs in the EECA Region, According to Civil SocietyAndré Gomes.Aug 29, 2024While the current international drug control conventions establish a global consensus, alternatives are increasingly being adopted: there is decriminalisation in…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug TraffickingOpioidsOther DrugsPsychedelicsStimulantsHow The British Telegram Drug Market WorksJay Crane.Jul 19, 2024Telegram is host to a plethora of flourishing drug markets that have become a serious contender to darknet markets, offering…
Drug Harm ReductionOther Drugs3MMC: What Is It, and Key Harm Reduction TipsNoor Vissram.Mar 22, 2024The last decade brought a rise in popularity of the recreational use of synthetic cathinones, a category of New Psychoactive…
Drug PolicyHow the EU Makes Drug PoliciesAlice Sattin.Jan 12, 2024The way that the European Union (EU) creates drug policy can seem unclear given its many levels of decision- and…
Coca & CocaineDrug TraffickingPersonal StoriesCome Ship Some Cocaine With Me: How Cocaine Enters EuropeSimon Coy.Jul 28, 2023I have been invited to write about the production, logistics, and transportation of cocaine, particularly the UN’s Office of Drugs…
Drug PolicyOther DrugsSingapore’s brutal drug laws and the fight to abolish the death penaltyAndré Gomes.Jun 23, 2023Activists in Singapore have been fighting to end the death penalty in the Southeast Asian country. After highly-covered executions at…
Drug Harm ReductionOther DrugsWe Asked the Experts: What Exactly is in Ketamine?André Gomes.Aug 18, 2022Ketamine was first synthesised in 1962 and has had an interesting history both within the “legitimate” medical world, and more…
Drug Harm ReductionOther DrugsWe Asked Experts: What Exactly is in the MDMA Supply?André Gomes.Jun 28, 2022The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its geopolitical shocks have been felt across multiple industries, including the illegal drug market. While…
Interactive Map: Drug Decriminalisation Across the WorldTalking Drugs, Release & the IDPC.Jun 1, 2022Our newly updated web-tool shows the countries and jurisdictions across the world have adopted some form of decriminalisation for drug use and…
Drug Harm ReductionAbolitionist Futures: Full Reading ListAbolitionist Futures.Aug 20, 2020Recently, there are been a huge uptake in interest in abolitionist ideas. More and more people are questioning whether prisons…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & GenderBarcelona Declaration: The Drug War is a War on Womxn Who Use Drugsdash.Mar 8, 2019In February 2019, more than 40 womxn from Europe and Central Asia met in Barcelona to work together on intersectional…
Drug Harm ReductionPersonal StoriesMy “Ten Commandments” of Safer Drug UseDominic Milton Trott.Jan 26, 2018Dominic Milton Trott is the author of The Honest Drug Book, which documents safety information for 140 different substances, and includes…