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.…
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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…
Not Many See Past Your “Drug” Label
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Human beings are social creatures – we understand the world around us through our interpretation of the world. This interpretation…
Breaking Convention 2023: Has the ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ Exhaled?
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Over three sunny days in April and at the University of Exeter’s campus, I attended Breaking Convention, Europe’s largest conference…
How Women Self-Organise: The Birth of Street and Antiprohibition Feminism
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TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her extensive research with…
Becoming a Woman Who Uses Crack: Breaking Silences in Brazil
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TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her…
Shlyapa I Bayan: 10 Years of Publishing Underground Drug News in Russia
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Almost 10 years ago, the first issue of the newspaper "Hat and Bayan" was published. This newspaper, which literally became…
Natalya Kaluzhskaya: “In Mariupol, people were dying because there were no medicines and they were in a state of withdrawal”
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DUNews, a documentary film studio covering the life of the community of people who use drugs, has been off the…
Owning My Pleasure – An exploration of Narcofeminism
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“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…