Tag: drugs

• How weight-loss drugs could upend the consumer economy

  December 8, 2023

  So what? Novo Nordisk is trying to find out if it can stop obesity before it happens. If it can, the implications could strike at the heart of a consumer culture… more ›

• Derrière la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, “le nouveau monde” du narcobanditisme marseillais

  November 26, 2023

  Derrière la flambée de violence qui ensanglante Marseille cet été, c’est toujours la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, deux gangs rivaux, qui est à l’oeuvre, explique la Préfète de… more ›

• Criminal Leviathans

  November 16, 2023

  What happens when state repression strengthens the very criminal groups it aims to constrain? Under mass incarceration, sophisticated prison gangs have learned not only to organize inmate populations, but to… more ›

• ‘The tsunami just keeps coming’: Europe’s growing cocaine market

  November 15, 2023

  Squeezed between the two channels of France’s biggest container port is a warren of narrow alleyways, blowsy 1950s bungalows and – along a windblown high road – a disheartening parade… more ›

• How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

  November 11, 2023

  In a forest clearing deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a bullet-scarred Venezuelan gangster sat smoking Colombian skunk. While his sidekicks mingled under the ice-cream bean tree where they sell crack,… more ›

• Derrière la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, “le nouveau monde” du narcobanditisme marseillais

  August 17, 2023

  Derrière la flambée de violence qui ensanglante Marseille cet été, c’est toujours la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, deux gangs rivaux, qui est à l’oeuvre, explique la Préfète de… more ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  August 7, 2023

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Gram by gram

  August 7, 2023

  In February 2019, Amos Dov Silver, a slight man in his mid-30s who often wears his shoulder-length hair in a bun, received a Telegram message inviting him to a wedding… more ›

• Peruvian police seize cocaine bricks wrapped in Nazi insignia

  May 26, 2023

  Peru’s anti-narcotics police have seized 58kg (127 pounds) of cocaine headed for Belgium in packages bearing Nazi symbols and imprinted with the name of Germany’s war-time leader Hitler. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/peruvian-police-seize-cocaine-bricks-wrapped-in-nazi-insignia more ›

• AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

  February 19, 2023

  There are now hundreds of startups exploring the use of machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry, says Nathan Benaich at Air Street Capital, a VC firm that invests in biotech… more ›