Using Network Forces in Uganda for Policy Change
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Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) is a drug user led national network that advocates for practical interventions to support and…
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Climate Lessons from Cambodia’s Illegal MDMA Market
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Cambodia’s experience with MDMA production provides important lessons about managing the environmental repercussions of illicit drug production, which are particularly…
After Coca: How the Drug War Colonises the Colombian Forest
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One of the first and consistent targets of the global War on Drugs has been the coca plant. Even after…
Brazilian Activists Deliver Manifesto to End Drug War to Leading Presidential Candidate
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While left-leaning presidential and gubernatorial hopefuls are either silent about or dodging the issue of drug policy in their campaigns…
Guidelines for Colombia’s New Drug Policy under Petro
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In an effort to guide future Colombian drug policy, several researchers from the Centro de Estudios y Seguridad y Drogas…
In Kenya, Harm Reduction is Limited by Lack of Social Support
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Apondi makes the case for how drug treatment programmes and the wider health environment for people who use drugs in…
Myro Rolim: Dismantling the Ideology of Drug Prohibition
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TalkingDrugs’ Felipe Neis Araujo spoke with Myro Rolim, a harm reductionist and social educator based in Brazil. The interview was…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [March-April 2022]
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How Russia’s War Impacts Harm Reduction Programmes in Ukraine, Talking Drugs (Rus). PLUS: Read this story of a Ukrainian harm…
In Honduras, Drug Policy is Also Climate Policy
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Late last month, I got word via WhatsApp that six old friends were in the custody of Mexican immigration authorities.…
Harm Reduction and Liberation for Black Trans Drug Users in Brazil
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More transgender people are murdered in Brazil than any other country in the world. Though the government criminalized queer- and…
How Drug Policy and Policing Harm Children in Rio de Janeiro
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A new report by the Centre for Security and Citizenship Studies (CESeC, in Portuguese) shows that 1154 primary schools in…
“Duterte has degraded the discourse so much it’s become a matter of whether to kill or not” – Gideon Lasco on Drugs and the Philippines
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An academic by training, Gideon Lasco does not limit his career to producing journal articles and book chapters. Beyond academia,…