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The safe mixture of pieces of flu virus particles that mimic the drug was developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and has great potential for human treatment. According to the researchers, this new strategy may be the first to offer a simple way to addicts break the cycle of addiction. If successful, the vaccine could also aid in [...]

We all know that Lindsay Lohan has that particular problem when it comes to white powders. Now, powdering her nose may have a completely different connotation, and it might attract the attention of the police just like it did some time back. This time around, she powdered her feet and it is not clear what made her do so! When Lindsay left her friend’s [...]

The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana producers. [...]

A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry states that cocaine vaccine ‘reduces use of the drug by raising anti-cocaine antibody levels in the blood, thereby inactivating the cocaine before it enters the brain and gives the user a high.’ Dr. Thomas Kosten, the report’s senior writer, ‘has been trying to develop a viable cocaine [...]

In South America, the War on Drugs waged by the US is hated for various reasons, foremost of which is the historical significance of the coca plant in the continent, because ‘the coca plant is a cultural treasure of South America.’ As everybody knows, revered as the coca is, the plant is also what eventually becomes cocaine, one of the most illicit [...]

Mexico’s biggest problem is the optimized power of drug cartels and organized crime. No government policy to crack down these groups seemed to have worked to solve the problem. Mexico recently announced it would decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines, heroin, and opium if these are for [...]

The return home was not like Pablo Eche had dreamed. After 15 months in a recovery clinic, struggling against his addiction in “paco”, a highly addictive drug that put an end to thousands of lives in Argentina, Eche returned to Ciudad Oculta. His relatives, including his mother, Bilma Acuna, anti-paco activist of the community, gave him the good [...]

A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations. Substantially, the report [...]

Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder. It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations. Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]