Coca & CocaineDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentDrug Policy Should Protect Social Leaders, Not Expose ThemLucas Marín Llanes.Jan 10, 2022Lucas Marín Llanes recently published an investigation for the International Journal of Drug Policy on how the Colombian crop substitution…
Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentReview and Validation of Sierra Leone’s National Drug Law Enforcement AgencyPrince Bull-Luseni.Dec 15, 2021
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentIDPC’s Jamie Bridge on the Global Drug Policy IndexAnastasia Bezverkha.Nov 30, 2021TalkingDrugs’ Anastasia Bezverkha attended the European Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) conference in Prague and caught up with the International Drug…
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 TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentOpioidsTaliban and opium poppy: should we expect a ban on cultivation?Anastasia Bezverkha.Oct 26, 2021In 2000, the Taliban were in power and due to the official ban on opium cultivation, the world market fell…
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 TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentOpioidsThe Uncovered Truth: How the opium poppy cultivation in Kyrgyzstan endedMirbek Sakenov & Karina Rozetdinova.Oct 8, 2021TalkingDrugs is excited to present to its readers an extract from Sputnik.kg on the origins of opium cultivation in Kyrgyzstan.…
Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentDrugs & RaceMilitarism, Prohibitionism, Drug War: A Formula for MassacreFelipe Neis Araujo.Jun 28, 2021On the 6th of May, agents of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro entered the community of Jacarezinho to…
Coca & CocaineDrug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentOpioidsТрилемма наркополитики: как эффективно бороться с наркотиками, обеспечив также мир и развитие?Talking Drugs.May 27, 2021Смерть 25 человек в результате полицейского рейда в Рио де Жанейро в мае 2021 года вновь актуализировала фокус “войны с наркотиками”…
Drug Harm ReductionDrugs & DevelopmentGlobal Harm Reduction Funding Crisis Is Worse Than EverUmme Hoque.May 24, 2021Globally, 2019 saw 1.7 million new HIV infections, with 690,000 deaths from complications related to AIDS. There are now an estimated…
Drugs & DevelopmentDrugs ‘Trilemma’: How To Halt The Deadly Trade While Still Ensuring Development And PeaceJonathan Goodhand & Patrick Meehan.May 11, 2021The deaths of 25 people in a police raid on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro have brought the “war…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & DevelopmentWorld Executions for Drug Charges Fell Sharply Amid COVID. It’s Likely Temporary.Alexander Lekhtman.Apr 13, 2021As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year, governments executed far fewer people for drug convictions than they did in…