Tag: drugs

• Rising deaths, fake pills, gang violence: How the EU is struggling to cope with illegal drug problem

  June 5, 2025

  Europe’s emerging drug threats span everything from fake medicines, cocaine busts, and synthetic weed, according to a new report. https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/06/05/rising-deaths-fake-pills-gang-violence-how-the-eu-is-struggling-to-cope-with-illegal-drug- more ›

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  May 26, 2025

  https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/west-africa-kush-crisis-how-synthetic-drugs-undermine-states/ more ›

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  March 17, 2025

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• How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth

  February 9, 2025

  Why did Swedish nicotine pouches become a generation’s go-to fix for blasting through long work days and longer nights out? https://www.gq.com/story/how-zyn-conquered-the-american-mouth more ›

• What will happen to al-Assad’s Captagon empire now?

  December 18, 2024

  Following its ousting of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last week, the opposition alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) invited international reporters to witness vast stockpiles and… more ›

• Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

  July 28, 2024

  On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on… more ›

• ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  June 13, 2024

  The submerged section of the ‘iceberg’ shows a man being searched by police, labelled packets of cocaine from a seizure and a customs official searching a box of bananas for… more ›

• Matthew D. Lassiter On What We Miss About White America and the War on Drugs

  April 20, 2024

  When I first picked up Matthew D. Lassiter’s groundbreaking new text, The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs, I knew I had to interview him and bring the… more ›

• April 7, 2024

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• Drugs, violence and organized crime in Belgium

  December 17, 2023

  The answer is, of course, cocaine. Antwerp, Europe’s diamond capital, is now better known as a key way station on the drug superhighway into the EU from Panama, Ecuador and… more ›