Tag: Drug Wars

Why punitive, coercive, and obedience-based drug treatment programs in prison don’t work.

The history of the harm reduction movement is one of direct action and protest – an “act first, ask second” attitude that was the only reasonable response to an outbreak of preventable disease and a crisis of premature deaths. Nicholas Olson reviews Fighting for Space, by Travis Lupick.

Anyone seeking to understand capitalism’s evolving capacity to consolidate and extend its power must come to terms with the drug war.

Horrific student slayings are only the latest casualties in North America’s drug wars.