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Improving Young People Access to Drug Education in Poland

Polish teenagers start experimenting early. The average age of first contact with ‘legal highs’ (a colloquial term for new psychoactive substances that were legally sold in Poland before 2010, now…

Marika Zapór

Aug 19, 2025

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“An attempt to disappear people”: Experts Comment on Trump’s Plans to Defund Harm Reduction

André Gomes

Aug 15, 2025

One of Trump’s latest executive orders calls for a crackdown on homelessness, encouraging federal agencies to defund drug-related interventions and…

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“Playing Whack-a-Mole”: A History of China’s Drug Bans

André Gomes

Aug 13, 2025

This article series is a deep-dive into the Chinese nitazenes ban that has just taken effect at the beginning of…

Drug Harm Reduction Drugs & Development Drugs & Race

Rethinking Harm Reduction With Indigenous Communities in Costa Rica

Ariel Foster

Aug 8, 2025

The Maleku Indigenous Territory is located in the canton of Guatuso, province of Alajuela, in northern Costa Rica. Covering an…

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Jonathan Ott: Psychedelic Chemist, Ethnobotanist, and ‘Renaissance’ Sceptic

Dennis Walker

Aug 8, 2025

“I plan to live until I’m 111,” said the hunchbacked wizard, hair disheveled in the evening breeze as he walked…

Drug Trafficking Opioids

The Opium Balloon: Taliban Crackdown Moves Opium Market to Pakistan

Nikhil Dawood

Jul 24, 2025

Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban have sought to completely eradicate the opium market by banning poppy cultivation…

Georgia’s Drug Treatment Ban Is a Page from Russia’s Playbook

Giorgi Minasovi

Jul 22, 2025

On 25 June, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze of the Georgian Dream party announced the closure of all private facilities offering Opioid…

Drug Trafficking Opioids

Ethylbromazolam – The New Global Benzodiazepine

Tori Rudkowsky

Jul 16, 2025

On 17 January, the Welsh drug testing service WEDINOS received a sample of what was purchased off the illegal market…

Cannabis Drug Policy

After London’s Drugs Commission, What Is Labour Waiting For?

Jack Hayes

Jul 15, 2025

When London Mayor, Sadiq Khan announced in 2021 that he would commission a report exploring the effectiveness of cannabis legislation…

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Nitazenes in the Baltics Are a Warning for Europe

André Gomes

Jul 14, 2025

Since 2017, the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have acted as the canaries in the mine for Europe’s…

One of the islands of Tonga with map trails drawn around it, signifying the methamphetamine trade routes occurring through the water.

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Tonga Reports Record Low Meth Seizures After Public Health Struggles

Ryan Hesketh

Jul 10, 2025

Tonga’s fight against methamphetamine appears to be bearing fruit—at least on paper. Police Minister Piveni Piukala announced this week that…

Drugs & Development Opioids

Exploring Iran’s History of Drug Use and Prohibition

Niko Vorobyov

Jul 8, 2025

As the sun set over an ancient riverside town in Iran, I was sat down with Sam (not his real…

Psychedelics

Virtuous Drug Use: How Certain Drug Taking Becomes Acceptable

Caroline Chatwin

Jul 3, 2025

In traditional philosophical and theological debates, sobriety is usually thought of as virtuous, while the non-medical use of drugs is…