Items tagged with methamphetamine
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Opioids and methamphetamine: a tale of two crises [24.02.2018] | The unchecked acceleration of opioid-related deaths in the USA is, by many measures, the worst of times. Prescriptions peaked in 2012 at more than 25... |
Joko Widodo: Police should shoot suspected drug dealers [23.07.2017] | President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed police to shoot suspected drug dealers to combat what he considers a narcotics emergency facing Indones... |
Drug reform push stalls [10.04.2017] | While there has been some progress in modernising drug laws, there is almost no good news in Thailand or the region. Despite Gen Paiboon's pioneering... |
A brief history of war and drugs: From Vikings to Nazis [24.11.2016] | Adolf Hitler was a junkie and the Nazis' narcotics intake gives new meaning to the term 'war on drugs'. But they weren't the only ones. Recent public... |
Section 44 to ease ya ba ban [29.08.2016] | The Justice Ministry will seek the use of Section 44 under the interim charter to remove methamphetamine, or ya ba, from the dangerous narcotics list... |
Thailand’s novel approach to drugs could offer lesson to neighbors [07.08.2016] | Forward thinking is not what one has come to expect from the conservative military regime running Thailand for the past two years. But a government w... |
Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war [17.07.2016] | More than a decade after Thailand declared a "war on drugs", the country is admitting defeat. As the prison population soars, Justice Minister Paiboo... |
The safe room [01.07.2016] | With Australia struggling to curb its crisis with methamphetamine two leading drug reform campaigners, Dr Alex Wodak and Matt Noffs, embarked on a re... |
Drug experts plan Australia's first ice smoking room despite Government opposition [29.06.2016] | Drug law reformers Matt Noffs and Dr Alex Wodak are pushing ahead with Australia's first supervised ice smoking room, in a move which directly contra... |
Justice Ministry seeking to remove ‘ya ba’ from ‘most-dangerous drugs’ list [17.06.2016] | Thailand's Justice Ministry is looking into a proposal to exclude ‘ya ba’, or pills containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine, from the li... |
The Ketamine Connection [10.07.2015] | For decades, ketamine was only manufactured by pharmaceutical companies. Technically, it was too complicated to be made by amateur chemists. But in t... |
An injecting room worked for heroin. Let's have one to help beat ice [30.03.2015] | In its report on the methamphetamine market, the Australian Crime Commission identified ice as the illicit drug posing the highest risk to Australia.... |
Losing marijuana business, Mexican cartels push heroin and meth [11.01.2015] | Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new... |
First lesson for new inquiry into ice: we've lost the war on drugs [16.12.2014] | Five Labor and three Conservative governments adopted harm minimisation as Australia ’s official national drug policy on 2 April 1985 and every Commo... |
How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph... |
Bouncing Back [30.04.2014] | TNI's indepth examination of the illegal drug market in the Golden Triangle, which has witnessed a doubling of opium production, growing prison popul... |
Greek addicts turn to deadly shisha drug as economic crisis deepens [15.05.2013] | Nobody knows which came first: the economic crisis tearing Greece apart or shisha, the drug now known as the "cocaine of the poor". What everyone doe... |
Meth Hype Could Undermine Good Medicine [27.12.2011] | Four scientists from Columbia University published an analysis of previous studies on methamphetamine use that called into question some of the purpo... |
Expert Seminar on ATS and Harm Reduction [26.11.2010] | This report captures the main outcomes from an informal expert seminar on harm reduction in relation to the rising problems with the use of Amphetami... |
Randomized controlled trial of dexamphetamine maintenance for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence [18.06.2009] | This study tested the impact of a long-acting form of amphetamine as medication to help control dependent use of the closely allied stimulant, metham... |
The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia [15.01.2009] | In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced a boom in the production and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), in particular methamphetamine... |
Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle [09.01.2009] | Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest re... |
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