Items tagged with methamphetamine
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| ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities [20.10.2022] | The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities. Laws passed in the ... |
| Dutch police busted fewer cannabis plantations, drug labs last year [04.04.2022] | The police busted and dismantled fewer synthetic drug labs and cannabis plantations last year, latest figures show. The number of discovered drug lab ... |
| US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says [17.11.2021] | The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the US during a 12-month period ending in April rose by 28.5% compared with the same period the year ... |
| Ottawa must act fast on safe drug supply as tainted-drug deaths continue daily: advocates [11.10.2021] | Downtown Eastside residents at high risk of overdose now have Vancouver’s support to get untainted drugs, but the federal government has the final sa ... |
| Cocaine, heroin and meth buyers' club gets Vancouver's approval to secure a safe supply [07.10.2021] | The City of Vancouver voted unanimously in favour of supporting a peer-led program that would help get a safe supply of drugs to individuals at high ... |
| New regime, same old drug myths in Myanmar [07.09.2021] | In the late 1980s as well as in Myanmar today, the military (or Tatmadaw) and the police could hardly be described as anti-drug crusaders. On the con ... |
| Doctors call for safer cocaine supply [03.03.2021] | As drug toxicity deaths and overdoses in Canada continue to soar to unprecedented levels due to the increasingly volatile illicit market, advocates a ... |
| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery [10.06.2020] | As the UNODC put it, this was “one of the largest and most successful counternarcotics operations” in Asia’s history. Myanmar’s army and police, whic ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| Is Southeast Asia's drug trade too big to control? [19.05.2020] | Police in Myanmar this week announced the largest synthetic drug seizure on record in Southeast Asia. Between February and April, security forces sei ... |
| Dutch and Mexican gangs are teaming up to sell high-end meth to Asia [14.05.2020] | A new and rapidly evolving Dutch meth trade shows evidence of collusion between Mexican and Dutch organized crime groups to produce and traffic high ... |
| Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] | The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ... |
| Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse [26.03.2020] | For nearly two decades Estonia battled a fentanyl epidemic so severe its overdose death rate was almost six times the European average. Once fentanyl ... |
| Bloody Philippine drug war fails to curb methamphetamine supply: VP [06.01.2020] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, pr ... |
| Philippines police chief and Duterte drug war enforcer resigns in meth scandal [14.10.2019] | The chief of police in the Philippines has stepped down after facing historical accusations in the Senate that he protected officers who had resold c ... |
| Push to decriminalise ice use as bar backs public health approach [26.06.2019] | The personal use and possession of ice and other illicit drugs would be decriminalised in NSW under a public health-driven plan backed by the Bar Ass ... |
| How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
| New Zealand tried for 20 years to curb its methamphetamine crisis. It failed [07.05.2019] | For twenty years, New Zealand fought methamphetamine and lost. Now, a Herald investigation has examined the impact of the meth epidemic from the insi ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte photographed with suspected Chinese ‘drug lords’, says former narcotics official [25.03.2019] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has faced widespread criticism over his deadly drug crackdown, has been photographed with two Chinese men s ... |
| Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms [15.02.2019] | Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
| Netherlands ‘market leader’ in production and trade synthetic drugs [27.08.2018] | The Netherlands is world leader in the production and trading of synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and amphetamines, with total turnover up to 2017 est ... |
| Melbourne's first safe injecting room, clean, sterile and 'will save lives' [29.06.2018] | Up to 300 people a day are expected to use Victoria's first medically supervised drug injecting room when it opens in the coming days. The Victorian ... |
| Stop blaming banned drugs for the devastation caused by prohibition [07.06.2018] | New Zealand was poised for drug reform in 2007 when the Law Commission was tasked to review the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. In 2011 after a four-year i ... |
| 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 Common ... |
| 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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