Can Syria Ever Leave Captagon Behind?
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Before the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, Syria controlled an estimated 80% of the global Captagon trade…
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Will China’s Nitazenes Ban Work?
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This is the second part in a two-part series on China’s new generic ban on the chemical class of nitazene…
Trump Sends Navy to Venezuela to Fight Drug Trafficking
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Hellraiser. Red Dawn. Ghostbusters. And now the war on drugs – another crap 80s reboot nobody asked for. In the…
“Playing Whack-a-Mole”: A History of China’s Drug Bans
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This article series is a deep-dive into the Chinese nitazenes ban that has just taken effect at the beginning of…
The Opium Balloon: Taliban Crackdown Moves Opium Market to Pakistan
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Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban have sought to completely eradicate the opium market by banning poppy cultivation…
Ethylbromazolam – The New Global Benzodiazepine
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On 17 January, the Welsh drug testing service WEDINOS received a sample of what was purchased off the illegal market…
Nitazenes in the Baltics Are a Warning for Europe
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Since 2017, the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have acted as the canaries in the mine for Europe’s…
Tonga Reports Record Low Meth Seizures After Public Health Struggles
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Tonga’s fight against methamphetamine appears to be bearing fruit—at least on paper. Police Minister Piveni Piukala announced this week that…
Europe Remains Safe Despite Growing Afghan Heroin Adulteration
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Three years after Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, announced his religious edict banning poppy cultivation, Afghan…
How Crime Exploits the Environment
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The latest edition of Revista Platô brings together political thoughts, research and several calls to action to strengthen the link between…
Fake Drug Charges Used to Arrest Georgian Protestors, Claims Watchdog NGO
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This past winter and spring, Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, nestled in the South Caucasus mountains bridging Europe and Asia,…
How Patients Became Collateral Damage in Mexico’s War on Fentanyl
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The current fentanyl crisis in the United States has had various and powerful consequences for Mexico. In the past month,…