Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyPersonal StoriesEnergy Control Releases “Nice People” SongEnergy Control - translated by Jessica Neicun.Nov 22, 2021Without prejudices nor taboos. In March 2020, a virus took over the planet, stopping all human activity. We isolated at…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyHow Diverting Opioids Can Be Harm ReductionSessi Kuwabara Blanchard.Nov 22, 2021What cops and regulators consider to be the boogeyman of the Canadian overdose crisis is in fact a tactic that…
CannabisDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & GenderTalkingDrugs News from Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region [September-October 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Nov 17, 20211. In Orenburg Russia, on October 15, representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service entered two Russian human rights defenders’…
Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentOther DrugsPersonal StoriesLast Night a DJ Saved My Life: Digital words with Constellations panellistsAndré Gomes.Nov 15, 2021With the stellar HRI conference Constellations starting tomorrow, TalkingDrugs had the opportunity to catch up with some of the panellists…
Drug PolicyOther DrugsPersonal Stories“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment FacilitiesAndré Gomes.Nov 12, 2021As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…
CannabisDrug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyPersonal StoriesTalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [September-October 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Nov 8, 2021On October 15, in Orenburg, Russia, FSB officers came to the home of two human rights activists – the head…
Drug PolicyDrugs & GenderHow Gender Affects the Way We Use DrugsAnne-Marie Harding.Oct 25, 2021A person’s sex and gender have a significant bearing on the way that they interact with drugs, from first encounters,…
CannabisDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentAn Insight into Colombia’s Drug PolicyMauro Echeverría.Oct 22, 2021This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingZimbabwean Government On a War Path with Drug LordsLawrence Paganga.Oct 21, 2021The Zimbabwean government has approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach to address the rampant misuse of illicit drugs in the…
Drug PolicyThe Office of National Drug Control Policy must recognise its actions before creating any changeKatharine Neill Harris.Oct 20, 2021In 1988 the U.S. Congress passed with bipartisan support the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. This omnibus bill cemented the country’s punitive and…
CannabisDrug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyEven in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy DebateMichael L. Rosino.Oct 18, 2021The war on drugs is deeply unpopular. 2021 looks to continue to be a pivotal year for reform. Nineteen…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in BrazilFelipe Neis Araujo.Oct 13, 2021As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…