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Nitazenes. The powerful synthetic opioids are showing up in Australia's cocaine supply. (Creative Commons)

JD Vance on Marijuana Policy, Australia's Cocaine is Being Cut with Nitazenes, More... (7/16/24)

A new Senate bill would offer protections for past marijuana users seeking federal employment, the Bahamas is moving to legalize medical and spiritual marijuana, and more.

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Book Review: Drug Use for Grown-Ups

A leading neuropsychopharmacologist speaks his minds about drugs.

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Two Takes on the Global Drug War and Global Drug Cultures [FEATURE]

In which we review two recent journalist efforts to understand the world of drug prohibition and drug culture.

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How to Legalize Ecstasy -- and Why [FEATURE]

Is it time to legalize MDMA? The Beckley Foundation thinks so.

Pharmaceutical heroin. (Creative Commons)

Faced with Fentanyl, Is It Time for Heroin Buyers' Clubs? [FEATURE]

The BC Center for Substance Abuse is ready to go there.

The number of drug overdose deaths remains unconscionably high.

What's Killing Us: The Ten Drugs Most Implicated in Overdose Deaths [FEATURE]

Multi-drug combinations prove particularly deadly.

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Study: Crackdowns on Heroin, Pain Pills Gave Rise to Fentanyl Overdose Epidemic [FEATURE]

The black market always has an answer. Too bad this one is so deadly.

Black market fentanyl is not just wreaking havoc on the streets of American cities. (Creative Commons)

Four Ways Fentanyl Could Radically Disrupt the Global Drug Trade

The drug has the potential to be tremendously disruptive of the traditional illicit drug market and smuggling structures.

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America, We Can Fix This: 24 Ways to Reduce Opioid Overdoses and Addiction [FEATURE]

The science and evidence base is there. What is needed is the political will, and a little care.

Fatal drug overdoses totaled nearly 60,000 last year, the New York Times reports. (Wikimedia)

Chronicle AM: NYT Says ODs at Record High, WI Gov Advances Medicaid Drug Testing, More... (6/7/17)

Drug overdoses are at an all time high, drug war dinosaur senators want to return to harsh sentencing, Wisconsin's GOP governor moves forward with first in the nation plan to drug test Medicaid applicants, and more.

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