Don’t Legalize Drugs, Decriminalize ’em
Portugal’s example suggests that de-escalating the war on drugs might create a new sort of peace dividend.
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Drugs
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‘Shooting Galleries’ Take Aim at Illicit Drug Market
The idea that governments can reduce both addiction and street crime — and maybe bleed black markets dry — by managing drug distribution has gained momentum.
Contending With Afghan Heroin (And How Not To)
European governments have taken two divergent paths in dealing with the resurrected flow of narcotics from Afghanistan, legalization and an American-style war on drugs.
Drug Testing Welfare Recipients in Vogue
Proposals to test Americans on the dole for illegal drugs seem grounded more in stereotypes and less in data.
Statins, Lou Gehrig and Big Questions
The cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have proved remarkably popular, but might they contribute in a few cases to debilitating neuromuscular disease?
Warnings About Statins Grow Louder
New research suggests previous studies supporting widespread use of cholesterol-lowering drugs is flawed.
The Drug Destruction of Mexico, Part I
Arriving in Mexico’s mainland, our ecological blogger is brought face-to-face, almost literally, with Mexico’s cartel-driven politics.
The Ecstasy and the Agony
MDMA holds promise as part of a therapy that helps post-traumatic stress patients confront and extinguish their fears. But ecstasy's recreational reputation has slowed research.
Cholesterol Contrarians Question Cult of Statins
The swell of support for broad use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have some medical researchers fearing that side effects we already know about suggest the drugs are too little understood.
Needle Exchange
Some readers say our article on a "harm reduction" approach to the drug problem is, itself, harmful.