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COMMENTARY The troubles of U.S. and Colombian presidential sons involve the scourges of drug supply and demand 鈥 and could be useful to new drug-war strategies.
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More than 93,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. last year, according to new CDC data. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids accounted primarily for the rise, which the pandemic exacerbated.
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Researchers know how to curb the risks of overdose and disease among drug users, but policymakers are reluctant to allow public health measures that include needle exchanges and access to safer drugs.
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From Miami Vice, to The Wire, to Orange Is the New Black, scripted TV shows have had a serious and sometimes unrecognized impact on public attitudes about drugs in America.
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President Nixon called for an "all-out offensive" against drugs and addiction. The U.S. is now rethinking policies that led to mass incarceration and shattered families while drug deaths kept rising.
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PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor returns to South Florida to co-moderate this year鈥檚 Gubernatorial Democratic Primary in the鈥
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The city of Medellin, Colombia has changed dramatically over the past few decades. But the city's past as the home to one history's most violent drug鈥
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Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department won't take the same permissive line toward state marijuana laws, but the implications for states, users and vendors aren't clear.
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COMMENTARY Nine years ago a colleague and I had dinner in Culiac谩n, Mexico, with local journalist Javier Valdez. At the time, Mexico was locked in of some鈥
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COMMENTARYWhen the Bahamas issued a travel advisory last weekend about visiting the U.S. 鈥 citing police brutality against black people 鈥 my first鈥
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COMMENTARYI鈥檇 like to take acclaimed film actor and ridiculed crime writer Sean Penn to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, which until recently suffered the鈥
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COMMENTARYIt鈥檚 not easy to watch Rolling Stone magazine鈥檚 newly released video of Mexican drug lord Joaqu铆n 鈥淐hapo鈥 Guzm谩n answering questions sent to him鈥