What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me When I Started Using Drugs
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When I began using drugs, I didn’t have anyone I could safely go to for advice or help. Nobody in…
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Another Year Goes By Without The Regulation of Medical Cannabis in Brazil
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Felipe Neis Araujo reflects back on the Brazilian development – or lack thereof – around the provision of medical cannabis.…
Treatment Together: Drug Rehabilitation Models Without Separation
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A model that works with familial responsibilities to address drug and alcohol addiction proves to be successful, but struggles amidst defunding…
How Diverting Opioids Can Be Harm Reduction
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What cops and regulators consider to be the boogeyman of the Canadian overdose crisis is in fact a tactic that…
“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment Facilities
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As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…
An Insight into Colombia’s Drug Policy
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This is the first article of Mauro Echeverria’s “The Great Colombia: A Drug Policy Profile of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador”…
The Office of National Drug Control Policy must recognise its actions before creating any change
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In 1988 the U.S. Congress passed with bipartisan support the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. This omnibus bill cemented the country’s punitive and…
Even in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy Debate
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The war on drugs is deeply unpopular. 2021 looks to continue to be a pivotal year for reform. Nineteen…
Drug Policy, Law Enforcement, and The Monetisation of State Violence in Brazil
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As copaganda thrives under prohibition, the different ways that the state apparatus of violence exercises its power and profits from…
The U.S. Counties Where Psychedelic Mushrooms Grow
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Moves towards psilocybin decriminalisation in the US have helped make this mushroom foraging season more magical than usual. Mushroom…
The Removal of the Ecuadorian Drug Possession Table: A Major Government Mistake
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At the end of August, the Minister of Government, Alexandra Vela, announced that the Ecuadorian government will propose to the…
Criticism of Awakn Treatment Model as Second Clinic Opens for Treating Addiction
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Emerging pharmaceutical companies are promising revolutionary treatments for substance misuse based on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA), in…