Heroin trafficking through South Africa: why here and why now?
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
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Reviving the war on drugs will further harm police-community relations
When police coax information from low-level offenders with threats of harsh sentencing, it breeds distrust in the community and ultimately contributes to mass incarceration.
Rodrigo Duterte risks losing support if he gets too close to Donald Trump
Anti-American and anti-corruption stances have given the president of the Philippines broad appeal.
In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation
Tupac's sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
Is Mexico actually the world’s second most murderous nation?
A controversial report claims that Mexico is more violent than Afghanistan and Yemen. It's wrong on the details but right that Mexico is, in effect, a war zone.
The campaign to save Mexico’s vaquita porpoise faces the same problems as the War on Drugs
Both focus too much on controlling supply and not enough on demand.
Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte: a not-so-surprising political friendship
Trump’s encouragement of Duterte suggests that US pressure on regimes around the world to uphold civil liberties may have become a thing of the past.
Mexico’s military is a lethal killing force – should it really be deployed as police?
A controversial law to officially engage Mexico's armed forces in fighting crime has human rights groups dismayed.
‘Record seizure’ headlines mark another false step in misguided war on drugs
Let's take claims about the value of drug seizures with a grain of salt.
Southeast Asia’s war on drugs doesn’t work – here’s what does
As in other parts of the world, the war on drugs in Southeast Asian countries has huge social, moral and medical costs. Now, an approach that places harm reduction at its centre is gaining support.
Why drug policy in Latin America needs to change: two scholars explain
In this TC Global Explainer, two Latin American scholars lay out the basics of drug policy, expose the 'war on drugs', and offer reform suggestions.
How the war on drugs fuels deadly prison riots in Brazil
In Brazilian prisons, overcrowding, corruption and gang infiltration are a combustive combination. But it all started with bad drug policies.
Just how big is the drug problem in the Philippines anyway?
Duterte says there are three million drug users in the Philippines. There are almost certainly many fewer than that.
Duterte talks big, but the Philippines won’t break ties with the US any time soon
The foul-mouthed, tough-talking president of the Philippines is ironically a pragmatist on foreign policy.
Banning kratom won’t stop users or solve the drugs health crisis – so why continue this losing war?
Complaints about the ban of kratom, often used by recovering opiate addicts, have been vociferous, but not always backed by facts.
Save the elephant: what we can learn from failures of the war on drugs
There are many similarities between wildlife poaching and the cultivation of drug plants like the coca bush or the opium poppy.
How American policing fails neighborhoods – and cops
Violent cops are just playing by the rules American society has created for them. It's time to change the rules.
America is moving to end its use of private prisons – should Australia follow suit?
Recent developments in the US suggest it might be time for Australia to rethink its reliance on private prisons.
Philippines cannot build a nation over the bodies of 100,000 dead in Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’
To understand Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and the public support for killing drug dealers and users, we need to distinguish the empirical from the normative – the 'what is' from 'what should be'.
When doping wasn’t considered cheating
In sports, what's considered fair play has changed throughout history. At one point, even looking 'too poor' was grounds for exclusion.
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Macquarie University
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Doctor in Politics at University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow at the American University of Beirut, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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