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The AFL has had several cocaine-centred controversies recently, but why is the drug considered performance enhancing?
Then-President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras talks with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Guatemala in 2016.
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Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.
Xanax pills.
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Synthetic opioids called nitazenes are ones to watch in 2024.
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Women are catching up with men’s drug use.
Calixcoca, a vaccine created in Brazil that is in the final stages of study, helps to reduce the compulsion to use drugs and could be an important tool in the package of treatments against addiction - which also includes psychiatric, psychological and social assistance support and help from the family.
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Calixcoca, which is in the final stages of study, could be a tool in the addiction treatment package.
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The US has seen a huge rise in drug deaths in the past decade involving a stimulant and a depressant.
A supervised consumption site in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, in 2021. B.C. has decriminalized simple possession of drugs, including methamphetamines and opioids.
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As British Columbia begins a new era in drug policy, the drug poisoning crisis continues without an end in sight.
Numerous rap songs criticize the Reagan administration for its complicity in the illicit drug trade.
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Ronald Reagan may have been known as ‘The Great Communicator,’ but rap artists don’t view his legacy through such rose-colored glasses. A professor of Black studies and history takes a closer look.
Some people take the new drugs to prolong sex.
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People in Nigeria are creating new drugs either because they can’t afford more traditional narcotics, because they’re not controlled or because they’re strong.
B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson holds a copy of exemption documents that enable British Columbia to decriminalize possession of small amounts of ‘hard’ drugs for personal use. B.C.’s bold experiment will be closely watched as a comparator with other progressive jurisdictions.
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British Columbia’s bold experiment provides an opportunity to implement more balance in Canadian drug policy, and a more principled withdrawal from the war on drugs.
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Now restrictions are easing, some people who have not used alcohol or other drugs recently may start to use them again, and need to be aware of their reduced tolerance.
Impurities are often added to recreational drugs to mask poor quality.
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In an effort to reduce costs, drugmakers and dealers often cut, or adulterate, recreational drugs with substances that have been banned by the FDA.
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Decriminalisation of illicit drugs is the natural conclusion to decades of research on drug-related harms.
Cash crop: Peruvian farmers looking over a field of coca seedlings.
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Coca is illegal – and there are harsh penalties for cultivating it. But farmers whose families face poverty say they have no choice.
Demonstrators protest demanding the resignation of the country’s interim president Jeanine Añez in El Alto, Bolivia, August 14 2020.
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Bolivia’s drug control strategy was once internationally applauded.
A marijuana trafficker practicing his aim in the Guajira, epicenter of Colombia’s first drug boom, in 1979.
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Step aside, Pablo Escobar. New research shows it was poor farmers who helped turn Colombia into the world’s largest drug producer when they started growing and exporting pot in the 1970s.
‘ZeroZeroZero’ is a drama based on truth that shows a clear picture of the modern cocaine trade.
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The federal government’s fight against cocaine distribution wrongly assumes that it’s all destined for the US.
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Methamphetamine use has increased dramatically in Asia in the past five years, overtaking even the US. Now cartels spy an opportunities in Europe.
Drying coca, Chapare, Bolivia
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Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.
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It’s difficult to find toilet paper, but apparently there’s no shortage of cannabis.