Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pavol Stracansky BEIRUT, Apr 5, 2011 (IPS) – A pioneering drug substitution programme in conflict-wracked Afghanistan has been hailed a resounding success as local doctors and international health organisations battle soaring heroin addiction rates and an HIV/AIDS epidemic. Doctors on the programme, which gives patients controlled doses [...]
New U.S. Drug Strategy Still Heavy on Enforcement
May 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, May 11 (IPS) – Along with an expanded focus on domestic prevention and treatment, the U.S. will make a renewed effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into its borders and weapons and money out of them, according to the White House’s long-anticipated National [...]
HEALTH: Injecting Drug Use Spreads HIV in Eastern Europe
April 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephen Leahy LIVERPOOL, Apr 29 (IPS) – Poor intervention in Injecting drug use (IDU) is driving the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and is also largely responsible for the tuberculosis epidemic in parts of Russia, says a new study. Shockingly, a mere three US cents a day per injecting [...]
BRAZIL: Crack Epidemic – Yet another Tough Nut to Crack in War on Drugs
November 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 23 (IPS) – J. ran away from home – a shack in a ”favela” or shantytown in Brazil – when he was just eight years old, after he realised that the money he begged for in the streets was spent by his violent [...]
ARGENTINA: ‘Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We’re Feeding’
November 2, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 (IPS) – ”You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish,” says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on the west side of [...]
AFGHANISTAN: The Cheap Way to Hell
October 27, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lal Aqa Sherin* KABUL, Oct 27 (IPS) – For the last three weeks, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi has lain in a Kabul hospital bed, suffering. His face is etched with hopelessness, loneliness and despair over the life he once had and has now lost forever. ”I lost my land, my [...]
