Drugs Not Driving Gang Violence, CDC Says
The popular image of street gang violence in the US as being "drug-related," is largely mistaken, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released last Thursday. Other factors,...
View ArticleReview Essay: The Border and Mexico's Drug Wars
Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juarez and El Paso, by Scott Comar (2011, University of Texas Press, 214 pp., $24.95 PB)Border Wars, by Tom Barry (2011, MIT Press, 171 pp.,...
View ArticleGiving Addicts Heroin More Effective Than Methadone, Study Finds
Treating intractable heroin addicts with a pharmaceutical version of their drug is more cost-effective than providing them with methadone, a common opioid substitute, a study published Monday in the...
View ArticleIrony Alert: Anti-Marijuana Newspaper Runs Ads for Pot Paraphernalia
Christian Science Monitor has a bit of a reputation for launching rabid attacks against the marijuana legalization movement, so you can imagine my surprise to find them advertising the high-end Volcano...
View ArticleHistoric Challenge to Drug War Looms at Cartagena Summit [FEATURE]
In just a couple of days, President Obama will fly to Cartagena, Colombia, to attend this weekend's Organization of American States (OAS) Sixth Summit of the Americas. He and the US delegation are...
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View ArticleBills to Drug Test the Poor Face Tough Going [FEATURE]
With states facing severe budget pressures, bills to require drug testing to apply for or receive public benefits -- welfare, unemployment benefits, even Medicaid -- have been all the rage at...
View ArticleHarsh Cameron Douglas Sentence Sparks Appeal, Support
Cameron Douglas, the son of noted Hollywood actor Mike Douglas, had a well-known history of drug addiction when he was sentenced to five years in federal prison for heroin possession and drug...
View ArticleUS/Mexico Drug War "Caravan of Peace" Gearing Up [FEATURE]
Aghast and appalled at the bloody results of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drugs, which has resulted in at least 50,000 deaths since he deployed the military against the so-called drug...
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Did You Know? Impairment Potential for Different Kinds of Drugs, on...
Different kinds of drugs affect people differently, but the details often get lost in debate. Read about the specific kinds of impact that different classes of drugs can have on people, including for...
View ArticleMaking Sure Drugs Kill: Commission Blames Drug War for Spreading AIDS [FEATURE]
On Tuesday, as the UN's global drug prohibition bureaucracy marked its annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and UN Office on Drugs and Crime head Yuri Fedotov blamed hard...
View ArticleUS-Mexican Caravan for (Drug War) Peace Gets Underway [FEATURE]
Last Sunday, dozens of Mexican activists led by poet Javier Sicilia crossed into the US at San Diego to begin a weeks-long Caravan for Peace and Justice that will take them more than 6,000 miles...
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Dr. Shaygan's Saga: Prosecutorial Misconduct in the War on Pain Docs [FEATURE]
special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com In what could become an historic case, a Florida doctor acquitted of drug dealing charges over...
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Who Was Killed in America's Drug War Last Year? [FEATURE]
For the past two years, Drug War Chronicle has been tracking all the US deaths directly attributable to domestic drug law enforcement, including the border. You can view the 2011 deaths here and the...
View ArticleMissouri Marijuana, Hemp Bills Filed
Members of the Missouri legislature have introduced three different marijuana law reform bills this month -- one to decriminalize possession; one to expunge misdemeanor offenses, including possession,...
View ArticlePublic Benefits Drug Test Bills Move in Three States
Bills that would require recipients of public benefits such as welfare or unemployment benefits to submit to drug testing have advanced in three states. On Monday, an unemployment drug testing bill...
View ArticleGAO Says ONCDP Not Achieving Drug Goals So Far
Just a day after the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP -- the drug czar's office) released its latest annual national drug control strategy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has...
View ArticleYouth Drug Use on Decline, Most Media Fail to Notice
[image:1 align:right]One of the two annual major drug use surveys in the US released its results this week, coinciding with National Recoverread more
View ArticleRadel Hypocrisy Charge Doesn't Withstand Scrutiny
[Update: I've posted an improved version of this editorial in the Chronicle.read more
View ArticleMarijuana Use Fairly Stable, Annual Survey Finds
[image:1 align:right]The annual Monitoring the Future survey of teen drug use is out, and anyonread more
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