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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.
The foul-mouthed, tough-talking president of the Philippines is ironically a pragmatist on foreign policy.
Complaints about the ban of kratom, often used by recovering opiate addicts, have been vociferous, but not always backed by facts.
There are many similarities between wildlife poaching and the cultivation of drug plants like the coca bush or the opium poppy.
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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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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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political and Historical Ethnography, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
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Sessional Lecturer, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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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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Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Visiting Fellow in Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading
