Twenty-two-year-old Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury was arrested on April 11 at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Sainsbury was due to return to Australia via London. Her suitcase contained 5.8kg…
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Cigarette smoking kills about 480,000 Americans annually and costs nearly US$170 billion in health care each year. Is it time we considered financial incentives to help people quit?
Colombia’s plan to turn coca-leaf farmers into coffee growers has a fatal flaw: the market.
Researchers have created a new kind of ‘drugalyser’ that’s less likely to give false positive readings.
Bolivia is the first cocaine-producing country to take a harm reduction approach to tackling the drug trade.
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
The way you take a drug affects how much of it gets to your brain, and how rapidly drug levels rise and fall.
Peru’s economy is booming, but it has a terrible cocaine habit that could cause it problems.
The myth has been debunked time and time again.
Our study found that 8% of the 1,684 elite Australian athletes we surveyed said they had used at least one of six illicit drugs – including ecstasy, cocaine and cocaine – over the previous year.
Not only can they improve public health and decrease treatment costs, but they can also address one of the root causes of addiction: loneliness.
Cocaine is a popular recreational drug that makes users energetic, confident and talkative. It’s also highly addictive and dependence-producing. Australians rank fourth in the world in cocaine abuse rates…
A new study shows cocaine promotes habitual behaviours in users which can also be limited with the use of an antioxidant…
In 2013, Mexico signed into law an important and controversial set of structural reforms, one of which opens the way for foreign companies to profit from Mexico’s oil holdings. An article in The Economist…
Young adults are six to seven times more likely to suffer from an ischemic stroke (caused by blood clots) within 24 hours…
Even today, some 20 years after his death, there is still debate in Colombia on how to interpret the mythology surrounding feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his Medellín Cartel. Escobar was regarded as…
The United Nations has recently announced that Peru has taken over Colombia as the largest producer of illegal coca leaves, the base for the drug cocaine. This comes as Brazil becomes the second biggest…
According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Australians are now the world’s eighth highest per capita users of cocaine. Cocaine use within the wealthier echelons of society is so unremarkable…
Recent findings by the Australian Crime Commission suggest Australians are consuming more cocaine than ever. Far from the buzzing beach-side nightclubs of Sydney, where I grew up, I recently had a chance…
Regular cocaine use significantly raises the risk of heart attack and stroke for otherwise healthy young people, a new study has found. The study, presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific…
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