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PHILIPPINES' DUTERTE BACKS BILL LOWERING AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY TO 9-YEARS-OLD
Human rights groups and advocates for child welfare counter that the lives of children living at the margins of the drug trade are anything but pampered... READ MORE›
RODRIGO DUTERTE'S NEXT TARGET: 9-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
Human rights groups and advocates for child welfare counter that the lives of children living at the margins of the drug trade are anything but pampered... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SUPREME COURT JUDGE CALLS FOR DRUGS LEGALIZATION TO BEAT GANGS
A rising number of Brazil's conservative and evangelical politicians are vowing a tougher stance on drugs, however... READ MORE›
DUTCH POLICE SEIZE INGREDIENTS ENOUGH TO MAKE 1 BN ECSTASY PILLS
If used to make ecstasy pills, the street value of the resulting drugs would be at least EUR5 billion... READ MORE›
'WAR ON THE POOR': AMNESTY SLAMS DUTERTE'S ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN AS 'CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY'
'War on the poor' Amnesty slams Duterte's anti-drug campaign as 'crime against humanity' -- RT News... READ MORE›
THESE ARE THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST PLACES TO BUY DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
Bloomberg mined its own research, the annual World Drug Report published by the United Nations along with data from the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
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PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE SAYS HE PERSONALLY KILLED CRIMINALS
Rights groups have previously accused Duterte of running vigilante death squads in Davao that killed more than 1,000 suspected criminals... READ MORE›
BRITISH BARON'S DAUGHTER SHOT DEAD IN PHILIPPINES
Aurora Moynihan UK peer's daughter shot dead in Philippines... READ MORE›
MDMA MAY POSE GREATER DANGER TO WOMEN THAN MEN, SAY SCIENTISTS
Global Drugs Survey says there has been four-fold increase in female ecstasy users seeking emergency care in last three years... READ MORE›
IN CHINA ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE SOLD ONLINE IN AN UNBRIDLED MARKET
SHANGHAI Ordering illegal drugs from China is as easy as typing on a keyboard... READ MORE›
KETAMINE SHOULD BE KEPT OFF WORLDWIDE ILLEGAL DRUGS LIST, DOCTORS SAY
But China and some other Asian countries, including Thailand, have problems with ketamine abuse... READ MORE›
'I'M SMARTER THAN THEY ARE': UNDERGROUND CHEMIST SAYS POLICE LOSING FENTANYL BATTLE
Drug producer known as Beeker says underground chemists are steps ahead of the police when it comes to the movement of illicit drugs on the streets... READ MORE›
ECSTASY SOLD IN US IS LESS PURE AND MORE DANGEROUS THAN IN EUROPE, EXPERTS WARN
People in the US have good prescription drugs, are moderate drinkers, smart cannabis users, but poorly discerning MDMA users, Winstock said... READ MORE›
BRITISH DRUGS SURVEY 2014: DRUG USE IS RISING IN THE UK A?? BUT WE'RE NOT ADDICTED
Buying selling drugs The vast majority of drug users buy their drugs from people they know only one in 10 buys drugs from strangers... READ MORE›
COUNTRIES QUESTIONING INDONESIAS PUSH TO EXECUTE DRUG OFFENDERS
Indonesia has long imposed severe penalties for drug smuggling, but its use of the death penalty has been sporadic... READ MORE›
JACKIE CHAN'S SON JAYCEE CHARGED WITH DRUG OFFENCE
Related Stories The son of Hollywood actor Jackie Chan has been charged with a drug offence, Chinese prosecutors in Beijing say... READ MORE›
'EL CHAPO': SEAN PENN INTERVIEWED GUZMAN BEFORE RECAPTURE
Hollywood actor Sean Penn interviewed Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman when he was on the run, it is revealed after his recapture... READ MORE›
DOCTORS URGED TO TALK OPENLY WITH PATIENTS ABOUT DRUG-TAKING FOR PLEASURE
Addiction psychiatrist Dr Adam Winstock tells medical conference that doctors are doing a disservice by only speaking about drug-related harms... READ MORE›
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE HEROIN OVERDOSE PHOTOGRAPH THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD
The inside story of the heroin overdose photograph that shocked the world... READ MORE›
BRITAIN DIVIDED: HOW WE REALLY FEEL ABOUT DRUGS
And there are signs that these drugs suffer little of the stigma that dog, say, crack cocaine and heroin... READ MORE›
DRIVER ON METH WHO HIT BOY BEATS CHARGE BY ARGUING IT ENHANCED DRIVING SKILLS
A drugged motorist has beaten a dangerous driving charge after experts said being on ice could have a positive effect on driving ability... READ MORE›
DARK NET MARKETS: THE EBAY OF DRUG DEALING
The most infamous of these dark net markets was called Silk Road, named after the ancient trading route... READ MORE›
SURGEONS IN THE SKY: DOCTORS HELP AIR AMBULANCES REACH NEW HEIGHTS
As a pre-hospital emergency physician for South Central ambulance service, his raison d'etre is to get to the most difficult of jobs... READ MORE›
LOVE COULDN'T BREAK HEROIN'S GRIP AS SONS BECAME CASUALTIES OF EPIDEMIC
One of those people is county legislator Jason Garnar, who has also dealt with the devastation from heroin... READ MORE›
IS PHILIPPINE LEADER RODRIGO DUTERTE CHARTING A COURSE AWAY FROM US?
Mr Duterte has estimated that 3.7 million of 101 million Filipinos have been using illegal drugs, one of the highest rates of drug use in Asia... READ MORE›
CAMPAIGN GROUP LED BY POLICE OFFICIALS CALLS FOR RETHINK ON WAR ON DRUGS
Paul Whitehouse, former chief constable of Sussex police, pointed out the damage caused by drink-driving and alcohol-related domestic violence... READ MORE›
FRENCH CUSTOMS SEIZE CANNABIS WORTH ?15M IN CHIC PARIS ARRONDISSEMENT
Last year around 200 tonnes of illegal drugs were seized customs officers in France about 157 tonnes of which were cannabis... READ MORE›
FORMER LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS URGE WORLD TO END WAR ON DRUGS 'DISASTER'
Former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico write op-ed on 'outdated drug policies' and denounce UN for secrecy ahead of special assembly on drugs... READ MORE›
CHINA INDICTS JACKIE CHAN'S SON ON DRUG CHARGE
China indicts Jackie Chan's son on drug charge Associated Press 6 56 a... READ MORE›
BATTLEFIELD LESSONS TRANSFORM U.S. EMERGENCY CARE
11, 2001, attacks on the United States are a reflection of the historic low in combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan... READ MORE›
GRIEVING US FATHER ON 'DRUGS RESCUE' RAID
John Cramsey's 20-year-old daughter died from a heroin overdose four months earlier in Allentown, Pennsylvania... READ MORE›
NANCY REAGAN AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF THE 'JUST SAY NO' ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN
On the home front in the US, the war on drugs is unable to prevent record numbers of overdoses and declining life expectancies... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S DRUG POLICY LED THE WORLD 30 YEARS AGO. NOW POLITICS HOLDS US BACK
In John Howard's tough on drugs era, harm minimisation was defined for the first time as the combination of supply reduction, demand reduction and harm reduction... READ MORE›
LEGAL HIGH BAN PREDICTED TO EXACERBATE CRISIS ON STREETS
Dealers of class A drugs are starting to take over the legal highs market... READ MORE›
UK IS BIGGEST ONLINE DRUG DEALING COUNTRY IN EUROPE
Its ?16m upper estimate of global drug revenues compares to an estimated monthly offline market for drugs of about ?1.7bn for Europe alone... READ MORE›
THE WOMAN WHO KILLS DEALERS FOR A LIVING
Maria, not her real name, now carries out contract killings as part of the government-sanctioned war on drugs... READ MORE›