“BEWARE!”: Trump’s Growing War on Narcoterrorism in the Americas
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The grainy, black-and-white footage shows a speedboat whizz through the waves before a fireball lights up the screen, stopping the…
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US Decertifies Colombia While Petro Reconsiders Aerial Glyphosate Spraying
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The US Government has just updated its list of major drug producing or trafficking countries, criticising Colombia’s difficulties to control…
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…
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…