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Rehumanising Diego Maradona

Sport Carlos Amato - 13 May 2020

In two recent documentaries, we finally get up close to the complicated sadness of Argentina’s original football deity

Drug-policy NGOs call for alcohol and cigarette sales ban to be lifted

Article Lester Kiewit - 1 Apr 2020

NGOs say the lockdown has detrimental effects on people living with substance dependence, as they try to get their fix amid heavy restriction of movement

Anger, drugs and parties in MPs’ villages

Article Lester Kiewit - 11 Mar 2020

The public works department told Parliament that there were ongoing efforts to increase safety and patrols at the villages, which are fortified by fences and monitored by cameras and access-controlled booms

Staggie legacy remains a threat

Article Lester Kiewit - 10 Jan 2020

The Cape’s notorious hoodlum was buried in reverence while an innocent child was shot during a gang chase

The case for not punishing drug users

Article Paul Michael Keichel - 27 Sep 2019

We need to reinvent the system so we can address the reasons for abuse, rather than punishing individuals

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Glasgow eye of storm as drug deaths spiral in Scotland

Article Joe Jackson 1 - 4 Sep 2019

Scotland's biggest city, is the epicentre of a substance abuse crisis, which saw an unprecedented 1187 drug-related deaths last year

Prescription drug poses new threat to youths

Article Mark Hunter - 28 Aug 2019

Learners turn to anti-anxiety medication to manage stress but punishment remains the state’s primary intervention

Strangers are blamed for our burdens

Article Andile Zulu - 16 Aug 2019

Politicians find quick fix ‘solutions’ in a bid to appease citizens who accept false information

Germany reopens painful debate on assisted suicide

Article Carsten Hauptmeier - 16 Apr 2019

Contradictory signals have fuelled debate on an issue that has huge resonance in a fast-ageing country where the Church still exerts strong influence

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Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ convicted by New York jury

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Feb 2019

The 61-year-old former boss of the notorious Sinaloa cartel faces life in prison for smuggling tons of drugs into the United States

Safe spaces increase the chances of recovery

Article Lester Kiewit - 18 Jan 2019

Being an addict on the street is hard, the two men say. But trying to break the habit is the hardest

People must be able to trust the police

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Oct 2018

The Victims of Crime Survey for 2015-2016, released by Statistics South Africa, shows that South Africans are generally reluctant to report crime

West Africa’s failed ‘war on drugs’

Article Comment Author - 2 Oct 2018

It is clear that West Africa’s drug laws are doing more harm than good, writes former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo

No cinematic escape from Cape Flats life

Article Eusebius McKaiser - 28 Sep 2018

A new film forces us to examine the background to crimes associated with poverty and deprivation

East Africa’s heroin coast

Africa Simon Allison - 4 Jul 2018

There are thousands of kilometres of coastline in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa. Drug traffickers are taking advantage

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