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According to a recent study published by The Lancet, well known medical journal, alcohol is more harmful than heroin and other drugs. The study was conducted by Prof. David Nutt (in the picture) along with others. It is an interesting study because it classifies drugs on the basis of harm i.e. harmful to the individual and harmful to others around. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

US troops deployed in Afghanistan have launched a major operation against the Taliban in Helmand province in the south. ‘Operation Khanjar’ (Sword Strike) has 4,000 US soldiers and 650 Afghan police and military. Fifty aircraft are involved, mostly supplied by NATO. The US military hopes to succeed where NATO forces have failed for years. This [...]

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, [...]

Parents, school officials, and health care workers in Ohio have been shocked by revelations that abuse of prescription drugs and heroin is slowly replacing alcohol and marijuana abuse among the youth of the US state. The trend has been rising towards more lethal drugs as prescription pill abuse has progressed into synthetic narcotics like OxyContin, [...]

US and Afghan troops recently destroyed a stronghold of the drug trade in southern Afghanistan. The offensive launched in the city of Marjah was a vast military operation to gain control of a stronghold of Taliban insurgents that is also used as a hub for storage and processing of drugs. “The four-day operation has seriously disrupted one of the [...]

The new ‘Af-Pak’ strategy of Barack Obama already received a response from the insurgents. Taliban leader Mullah Omar said that Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban will join forces to welcome the purportedly powerful new offensive from the West. Mullah Omar who was located by intelligence services to be presently based in Queta, capital [...]