War On Drugs

New Haven Students Make Film about War on Drugs

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES –   July 6, 2024 - This spring, a group of New Haven students…

5 months ago

Arrests at North Carolina Methadone Clinic

DRUG WAR CONTINUES –   May 21, 2024 - Probation Officer Carter was hot on Emma’s heels. Early on August…

6 months ago

Oregon Lawmakers Ready to End Decriminalization ‘experiment’

VIDEO – WAR ON DRUG ADDICTS BACK ON –   March 3, 2024 - “About four Oregonians a day are…

9 months ago

Why the ‘War on Drugs’ Failed Addicts

VIDEO – PLANNED THAT WAY – Dec. 20, 2023 - What would our country look like today if we’d spent…

11 months ago

The War on Drugs Didn’t Work. How Do We Address Fentanyl Crisis?

GUESS WORK? –   Sept. 28, 2023 - In other words, our colleagues want to fight the opioid crisis by…

1 year ago

US to Combat Opiates With Nuevo War on Drugs

VIDEO – WILL IT WORK? –   Sept. 19, 2023  - Primary elements of the strategy include: Reducing the international…

1 year ago

Supervised Injection Sites Future of War on Drugs

FEED A SOUL - SAVE A LIFE – Sept. 4, 2023 - Since 2000, there have been over 700k drug…

1 year ago

The War on Drugs Has Failed! It’s Time to Decriminalize

AUDIO – NIXON WAS THE CRIMINAL – July 7, 2023 - Scottish ministers want to reform drug laws to enable…

1 year ago

America Has Lost the War on Drugs!!!

NOW WHAT? – Feb. 22, 2023 - For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century…

2 years ago

The Reality of the Taliban’s War On Drugs

IT’S NOT WORKING EITHER –  Jan. 28, 2023 - The Taliban tried banning poppy cultivation in 2001, but it was…

2 years ago

What Comes Next for the War on Drugs?

IT WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY –  Dec. 12, 2022 - The MAT Act would eliminate the special Drug Enforcement…

2 years ago

“Democracy Will Die” If We Don’t End Drug War!

VIDEO – ONLY SOLUTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS –  Sept. 21, 2022 - In his speech before the UN’s General…

2 years ago

Police Repeating Drug War’s Dark History in Fentanyl Era

NO EFFECT ON OVERDOSE VICTIMS? –  Sept. 20, 2022 - Facing an unprecedented public health crisis, law enforcement is under…

2 years ago

A Path to the Legal Regulation of All Drugs

SANITY AT LAST? –  July 14, 2022 - Amid a century-long drug war in the United States, things are getting…

2 years ago

Will Overdose Deaths Force An End to the US ‘war on drugs’?

WHY WOULD IT? –   Jan. 3, 2022 - “I revived a guy who OD’ed on the street this morning…

3 years ago

50-Year War on Drugs Imprisoned Millions of Black Lives That Didn’t Matter

EXCEPT TO THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX –   July 21, 2021 - Yet the loser is clear: Black and Latino…

3 years ago

Biden Drug Policy Could Widen Racial Disparities, Civil Rights Groups Warn

LISTEN – DO ANY LIVES MATTER –   Oct. 22, 2021 - In recent years, Cook said, about 70% of…

3 years ago

THE DOPE: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

MEDIA: BOOK REVIEW –   August 24, 2021 - Just two weeks earlier, I had moved to Mexico to work…

3 years ago

Seattle Overdose Task Force Calls for Decriminalization of ALL DRUGS

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP DYING –    Sept. 2, 2021 - With respect to psychedelics, the group’s one-page summary…

3 years ago

Suits: The New Face of the Illegal Drug Trade

DRESSING UP THE DRUG TRADE –   AUGUST 21, 2021 - Drug lords switching out gold chains for bespoke suits,…

3 years ago

The CIA Helped Export Opium From Afghanistan

WATCH – BIG PHARMA’S BIG PARTNER –    Sept. 19, 2015 - In the same month, it was reported that…

3 years ago

Maritza Perez Focuses on Downside of Criminalizing Drug Use

IT’S ALL DOWNSIDE –    July 26, 2021 - “Targeted drug enforcement and over-policing in communities of color have led…

3 years ago

Philippine President Duterte Wants to Kill Drug Dealers

THE FINAL SOLUTION –  July 27, 2021 - The killings have alarmed Western governments, U.N. rights experts, and human rights…

3 years ago

The ‘war on drugs’ was always about race

WAS THE DRUG WAR ACTUALLY A SUCCESS? –    July 21, 2021 - But where the “failed war on drugs”…

3 years ago

Deaths Related To Alcohol And Drugs Are SOARING In State Prisons

LISTEN – EVERYONE IS ON DEATH ROW –    July 17, 2021 - JENKINS: Essentially treating one illicit drug with…

3 years ago

Drug, alcohol, jail deaths puts spotlight on fallout from ‘war on drugs’

WATCH – ONLY POOR PEOPLE DIE IN WAR –    July 4, 2021 - “The fact that we have criminalized…

3 years ago

How Should We Do Drugs Now?

ONE DAY AT A TIME –    July 9, 2021 - The blunt binaries of “Just say no” that have…

3 years ago

Driven by Drug Policy

THE BARBARIC DRUG LAWS OF AMERICA –  July 8, 2021 - I have a million stories about my older brother,…

3 years ago

The War on Drugs Comes to the Doctor’s Office

IT’S COMPLICATED –    June 30, 2021 - On November 21, 2017, Ashley was at Joshi’s office for a telehealth…

3 years ago

The War Within Drug Treatment

JUST STAY ALIVE –  June 23, 2021 - Now, some are embracing a new approach to treatment – harnessing the…

3 years ago