Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
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Both presidents brought border traffic and trade to a standstill in hopes of changing Mexican policy in the drug war. And both failed to achieve their goals.
The UN's new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
The Mexican slow-down in life expectancy improvements coincides with an unprecedented rise in violence.
Understanding the pleasure drugs give people would help to prevent the harms.
With several music festival patrons dying this year the pill testing debate is in full swing. Yet people can already purchase legally available test kits. Do they work?
There are arguments against pill testing. But none are as compelling or evidence-based as the arguments for it.
The government's own review of its legislation to tackle 'legal highs' reveals the unintended consequences of the law – consequences we predicted.
Even with the best will in the world, there's only so much social policy can do to stop organised crime.
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.
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Associate Professor, University of York
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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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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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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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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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Associate research scientist, 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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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, UNSW Scientia Education Fellow, UNSW
