More: Drugs
Drug Use and Fentanyl Overdose Deaths in the United States
A significant number of people lose their lives due to drug overdoses every year worldwide. Drug use has been on the agendas of government...
Breaking the Grip: Comprehensive Policy Recommendations to Defeat Drug Cartels
In 2022, drug overdoses claimed the lives of over 100,000 Americans. The primary sources of illegal drugs flooding into the United States are the...
Narcotrafficking’s Impact on Source, Transit, and User Countries
Narcotrafficking is a transnational crime with drugs, weapons, money, and people crossing international borders for illicit purposes. Generally, narcotrafficking involves at least three countries:...
Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations Threaten U.S. Security
According to the State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report of 2022, Mexico is the primary source of illegal drugs in the United States,...
Narcotrafficking: A National Security Threat
The United States is facing a crisis at its porous southern border, which 2.78 million undocumented aliens crossed in 2022 . At the same...
How the Terrorist Groups get Financed and Sponsored in Afghanistan and the Region?
Part 1: the Taliban
According to confidential source, high-ranking Taliban leaders in collaboration with private businesspersons abroad run a number of businesses. Taliban leaders transferred...
Taliban strictly bans drugs in Afghanistan
The Taliban has issued a decree banning the cultivation of opium poppy. “As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate...
Nepal Assigns Drug Control Officers for Each District
Authors: Harsh Mahaseth and Samyuktha Karthikeyan*
A simple search on YouTube titled “drug consumption in Nepal”, would lead to many awareness videos highlighting several stories...
Is Mexico becoming a narco state?
On December 12th, 2006 former Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, declared what would be one of the most intrusive and intense military strategies in the...
COVID pandemic fuelling major increase in drug use worldwide
Around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, up by 22 per cent...