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During the height of America’s inner-city crack epidemic, a narcotics task force in Bridgeport, CT raids a crack den, arresting users, addicts and dealers. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
ADDICTION

The war on drugs is a fight with no winners

A humanitarian intervention is needed to reform a punitive system that does not produce the desired results

  • Martin Ignacio Díaz Velásquez
5 min read
Punitive measures simply drive drug use underground. A more effective way is to adopt harm reduction interventions. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)
DRUGS

Stop the ‘war on drugs’, it doesn’t work

Punitive measures simply drive drug use underground. A more effective way is to adopt harm reduction interventions

  • Tlaleng Mofokeng
4 min read