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,…
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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 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…
Responding to the Scottish Lord Advocate’s statement on drugs
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On Thursday, 23 September, the Scottish Lord Advocate (chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland…
The Removal of the Ecuadorian Drug Possession Table: A Major Government Mistake
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At the end of August, the Minister of Government, Alexandra Vela, announced that the Ecuadorian government will propose to the…
Criticism of Awakn Treatment Model as Second Clinic Opens for Treating Addiction
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Emerging pharmaceutical companies are promising revolutionary treatments for substance misuse based on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA), in…
Estonian harm reduction programme brilliantly reverses its overdose epidemic
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Previously a stark example of the harms of synthetic opioids, Estonia successfully implemented a range of harm-reduction programmes that reversed…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [July & August 2021]
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1. Moldovia: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the state of Moldovia in a case on the…