Prodrugs: Pills Your Body Converts Into An Illicit Drug Can Evade Detection
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Drug traffickers have found a way to trick enforcement agencies by using one of the most potent tools our bodies…
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Tali-Ban: How Europe’s Heroin Markets Will Survive Afghanistan’s Opium
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The Taliban opium ban, implemented earlier this year, has drastically reduced poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. While some have speculated this…
Language Matters: Is My Country a “Narco-state”?
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The term “narco-state” has been used by politicians, journalists, and law enforcement agencies since the 1980s. While it was initially…
Singapore’s brutal drug laws and the fight to abolish the death penalty
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Activists in Singapore have been fighting to end the death penalty in the Southeast Asian country. After highly-covered executions at…
Tangaraju Suppiah: The First Execution Notice of 2023
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This story has been republished with Kirsten’s agreement from her We, The Citizens newsletter. Rocky, a fellow member of the Transformative…
Darknet Actively Supplying More Harm Reduction Advice in Sales
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Darknet markets are increasingly adding dosage information, trip reports and other harm reduction advice at the point of drug purchase…
From Opium To Meth: How Myanmar Became The World’s Leading Producer Of Methamphetamine
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Myanmar and its remote borderlands have long been a global centre for illegal drug production. Due to its isolated location…
Climate Lessons from Cambodia’s Illegal MDMA Market
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Cambodia’s experience with MDMA production provides important lessons about managing the environmental repercussions of illicit drug production, which are particularly…
Drug Executions in Iran Are Back on the Rise
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A recent press release from Amnesty in July 2022 highlighted a spike in Iranian executions, where at least 251 people…
Indonesian Drug Policy Victimises Women and Damages Their Health
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This article is published to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26. On…
Ronda Girls: How Filipino Mothers Took on the War on Drugs
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A group of impacted mothers showed how an alternative to the violent drug war in the Philippines could be better…
Tracing The History of Hallucinogens in China
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Professor Fan Pen Li Chen, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies & Department Chair of East Asian Studies in the State…