Society / Drugs
Articles about Drugs, ordered by date. 
The Interview: Amitav Ghosh
Indian author Amitav Ghosh talks to Graeme Green about colonialism and the current opioid crisis.
When alcohol causes so much damage is it unethical to set up a brewery?
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
The slow and bloody road to justice
Colombia’s peace deal promised the return of stolen lands. But it isn’t so easy to achieve, Mira Galanova discovers.
And finally... Nahko
US singer-songwriter Nahko shares his experience of psychedelics, human trafficking and turning pain into positivity, with Graeme Green.
A word with Yuri Herrera
The Mexican author and political scientist talks drugs, racism and masculinity with Graeme Green
Get up, stand up!
Meet the Rastafarian lawyer fighting for cannabis freedom in South Africa. Interview by Alice McCool.
Shopping for their lives
The patented breakthrough drugs for hepatitis C are so expensive that even the wealthiest of nations strictly ration them. Now desperate patients are going where their governments will not, by defying the system to get their meds from India. Sophie Cousins reports.
Duterte's bloody war continues apace
Iris Gonzales reflects on the Philippine president's controversial war on drugs.
Russia's unseen casualties
Those living with HIV in the Ukraine face an uncertain future following cuts to support services, reports Gabriella Jozwiak.
What would legalization of drugs look like?
Heroin in every lunchbox? Not quite. Medic Max Rendall answers your questions...
Illegal drugs - THE FACTS
The demand for illegal drugs is solid and the trade in them resilient - in spite of expensive and punitive attempts to stop it.
Legalize drugs - all of them!
NI editor Vanessa Baird looks at the many reasons why this is the only option that makes sense.
A healthy mind in a healthy society
Mental health shouldn’t just be about individuals, we need strong communities too. Dinyar Godrej makes the case.
Poisoned hills
Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the opium trade
A remarkable failure
Drug prohibition doesn’t work. Time to legalize instead, argues Rachel Godfrey Wood.
The drugs don't work
Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills
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