Coca & Cocaine

Articles on cocaine and crack cocaine, including its production, use, and distribution.

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Apr 21, 2017

A new report has revealed astounding estimates of the global illegal drug trade’s scale, and has detailed a variety of…

Apr 6, 2017

Dozens of Hezbollah members have taken part in “spontaneous” drug raids in a southern Beirut suburb, but their reasons for…

Feb 14, 2017

A programme providing housing and employment to people with problematic crack cocaine use in São Paulo will be scaled down over the…

Jan 25, 2017

The Bolivian government plans to expand the legal production of coca leaves, the raw material from which cocaine is produced,…

Oct 21, 2016

Recent violence in Costa Rica’s coastal town of Limón has put a spotlight on the Central American state’s role in…

Oct 19, 2016

São Paulo’s pioneering harm reduction programme for people who use crack cocaine faces an uncertain future following the recent election…

Sep 19, 2016

Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK), has proposed a new alternative development plan for the country’s main coca-growing region in…

Aug 19, 2016

The Brazilian Crack User Support Program, With Open Arms, provides people with housing and jobs. This approach, applied to residents of the…

Jul 29, 2016

A Brazilian drug programme, With Open Arms, is providing people who misuse crack cocaine with housing and employment. The approach,…