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Drugs, Camera, Action! The Art of Making Drugs Look Real on TV

Russell Newcombe

Aug 7, 2023

Scenes of drug taking and characters high on drugs are increasingly common in TV shows, movies, and computer games. This…

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Only Drug User Solidarity Will End Prohibition

M. L. Lanzillotta

Jul 26, 2023

People who take prescribed opioids or other heavily stigmatised drugs sourced from a doctor try hard to differentiate themselves from…

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Prodrugs: Pills Your Body Converts Into An Illicit Drug Can Evade Detection

Julio de Carvalho Ponce

Jul 26, 2023

Drug traffickers have found a way to trick enforcement agencies by using one of the most potent tools our bodies…

White paper with text printed in red block capitals: "Warning: Death for drug traffickers under Singapore law"

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Singapore’s brutal drug laws and the fight to abolish the death penalty

André Gomes

Jun 23, 2023

Activists in Singapore have been fighting to end the death penalty in the Southeast Asian country. After highly-covered executions at…

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Improving Health and Drug Service Access for Indigenous People in Australia

Raechel Wallace

Jun 16, 2023

Accessing health care services is a key part of the universal right to health. This access can be a considerable challenge,…

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Darknet Actively Supplying More Harm Reduction Advice in Sales

André Gomes

Jun 16, 2023

Darknet markets are increasingly adding dosage information, trip reports and other harm reduction advice at the point of drug purchase…

Coca & Cocaine Drugs & Gender Other Drugs Personal Stories

How Women Self-Organise: The Birth of Street and Antiprohibition Feminism

Luana Malheiro

Mar 8, 2023

TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her extensive research with…

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Becoming a Woman Who Uses Crack: Breaking Silences in Brazil

Luana Malheiro

Feb 24, 2023

TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her…

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Owning My Pleasure – An exploration of Narcofeminism

Jessica Spratt

Feb 9, 2023

“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…

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Kratom’s Regulation in Czechia Promises More Market Safety for the Drug

André Gomes

Feb 9, 2023

Kratom, the psychoactive plant originally from southeast Asia, is on the cusp of legal regulation in Czechia, also known as…

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Lessons on Psychedelic Evangelism from the UK Counterculture of the 60s

Himesh Mehta

Feb 2, 2023

At a recent activism event advocating for the medical utility of psychedelic drugs, I heard a member of a psychedelic…

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Cruel and Unusual: The Ethics of Using Drugs to Kill

Emily Heron

Dec 6, 2022

Maya Foa, joint Executive Director at NGO Reprieve, has described the death penalty as the “sharp end of a series…