How the United States Fueled a Global Drug War

Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic | Council on Foreign Relations

Fentanyl and other opioids are fueling the worst drug crisis in the history of the United States. More than 1,500 Americans per week die ...

The History of The War on Drugs: Reagan Era and Beyond

Similarly, the Drug Enforcement Administration was created under the Nixon administration in an effort to minimize interagency feuds and pool ...

Why the war on drugs must end - The Hill

It's an idea that as cannabis legalization sweeps across the US and many other nations around the world, legal prohibitions against drug use and abuse will ...

Reagan's Militarisation of the 'War on Drugs'

Under the Reagan administration the 'war on drugs' was intensified domestically and internationally. Within the US, there were a number of legal ...

DoD Framework to Counter Drug Trafficking and Other Illicit Threat ...

partners, DoD will help reduce the quantity of illicit drugs reaching the United States and degrade global criminal activity. DoD will ...

The War on Drugs:

Today it supplies more than 90% of global illicit opium/ heroin, despite poppy eradication being one of the stated goals of the coalition invasion in 2001.

LSE IDEAS Governing the Global Drug Wars

He is the author of the books: The United States and International Drug Control, 1909-1997 (Continuum, ... This fuelled the dramatic rise of the Colombian. ' ...

War and sanctions destroyed Syria's economy. Drug trafficking ...

A U.S.-led sanctions campaign aimed to force Syria's brutal leaders to step aside. A multibillion-dollar illicit drug industry arose to ...

8 Times America's War on Drugs Was Stranger Than Fiction

Featuring a press conference and an anti-drug message to Congress, Nixon stated that drug abuse was worse than communism, and called drugs “ ...

[Training] Analyzing the U.S. War on Drugs & Racist Drug Policies (3 ...

... drug policy in the 21st century United States. Like Alcohol Prohibition ... in the world events are fueled by underlying social structures.

The U.S. War on Drugs in Latin America - Eagle Scholar

The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. (INL) provides assistance to Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala for their own aerial and manual.

The War on Drugs—Mechanisms and Effects - Learning for Justice

Mass incarceration is fueled by a highly funded and minimally ... in the War on Drugs. Students will identify specific aspects of the criminal ...

The War on Drugs has failed. What's next? - Ford Foundation

Over the past five decades, the US has spent nearly $1 trillion fighting a War on Drugs that has disproportionately targeted, prosecuted, and ...

America's War on Drugs - Apple TV

“America's War on Drugs” is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against ...

2020 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA) - DEA.gov

Illicit drugs distributed by the Sinaloa Cartel are primarily smuggled into the United States ... overview of drug trends in the world's leading heroin and ...

Fire and Ice: Conflict and Drugs in Myanmar's Shan State

The government should redouble its drug control and anti-corruption efforts, focusing on major players in the drug trade. Education and harm ...

Drug Policy - Institute for Policy Studies

The project has focused recently on the attendant “collateral damage” caused by the United States exporting its drug war to Colombia and Afghanistan, peace ...

Cocaine, Conspiracy Theories And The Cia In Central America ...

A series of expose articles in the San Jose Mercury-News by reporter Gary Webb told tales of a drug triangle during the 1980s that linked CIA officials in ...

The war on drugs: a devastating public-policy disaster - The Lancet

Internationally, the conventions have been most strongly supported by the US Government since 1971, when President Richard Nixon described the ...

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug ...

To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in ...