“We Want Recovery” Female Sex Workers Using Drugs in Burundi
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Women tend to be a drug using group that often is less served or face higher barriers of access to…
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The Problem With Viewing Addiction As Inevitable
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I won’t deny that accepting the one real inevitability in life (i.e., that all mortals must eventually die) is philosophically…
A Bright Success in Overturning Death Penalty in Malaysia
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One of the longer, if not the longest, case of a death row sentence landed on Dobby’s lap. Chong Yun…
Generation Next: How Youth-led Organisations Refresh Global Drug Policies
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The corridors of global policy discussions have been, for the most part, off-limits to the younger generation. This exclusionary practice,…
Dope Men: How We Went From Alcohol Prohibition to Another
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Just past midnight on April 7th 1933, a truck pulled up to the White House filled with beer. President Roosevelt…
Defining Recovery Beyond Sobriety
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A note before I begin: recovery is a personal and loaded concept. This essay isn’t intended to be a definite…
Brain Boosters Unleashed: Cognitive Enhancers Use Among University Students
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In today’s highly competitive academic landscape, an increasing number of Western university students turn to cognitive enhancers such as Ritalin…
Is Ibiza the Disneyland of Drugs?
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A woman in her 20s collapses on the floor, and in that moment the spell of the club is broken.…
Drugs, Camera, Action! Balancing Accuracy with Drama
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This is the second part of the “Drugs, Camera, Action!” article. You can read part one here. Drug effects: “Once…
Drugs, Camera, Action! The Art of Making Drugs Look Real on TV
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Scenes of drug taking and characters high on drugs are increasingly common in TV shows, movies, and computer games. This…
Come Ship Some Cocaine With Me: How Cocaine Enters Europe
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I have been invited to write about the production, logistics, and transportation of cocaine, particularly the UN’s Office of Drugs…
Only Drug User Solidarity Will End Prohibition
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People who take prescribed opioids or other heavily stigmatised drugs sourced from a doctor try hard to differentiate themselves from…