Even with the best will in the world, there's only so much social policy can do to stop organised crime.
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Just seven countries worldwide regularly execute people for drug crimes, most of them authoritarian regimes. Nothing suggests that this brutal policy actually curbs drug use.
The Canadian deal to sell helicopters to the Philippines has finally been killed. What took so long, and why was it the Philippines, not Canada, that ultimately scrubbed the deal?
Fighting prejudice against people who use drugs should lead to a larger interrogation of society and inequality – not only a change of vocabulary.
Why bother chasing big drugs operations when it makes no difference? Here are three reasons.
Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte's 'War on Drugs' is estimated to have led to more than 13,000 killings. Artists - both in the Philippines and beyond - are helping communities work through their trauma.
Budget cuts have consequences.
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
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.
Anti-American and anti-corruption stances have given the president of the Philippines broad appeal.
Tupac's sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
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.
Both focus too much on controlling supply and not enough on demand.
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.
A controversial law to officially engage Mexico's armed forces in fighting crime has human rights groups dismayed.
Let's take claims about the value of drug seizures with a grain of salt.
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.
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.
In Brazilian prisons, overcrowding, corruption and gang infiltration are a combustive combination. But it all started with bad drug policies.
Duterte says there are three million drug users in the Philippines. There are almost certainly many fewer than that.
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Sessional Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Mental Health and Addiction, University of York
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political and Historical Ethnography, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Research professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate in Social Intervention, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia
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Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam
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Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, UNSW Scientia Education Fellow, UNSW
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NHMRC Post-Doc Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
