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Syria Becomes World’s First Narco Nation: Amphetamine Runs Bashar’s Civil War

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 1, 20220

 In 2021 in a shipment of oranges, the Lebanese officials peeled open the orange to find 9 million pills of the drug Captagon a power amphetamine. However, the smuggler, in this case, wasn't another Columbian, Mexican, or drug cartel. Instead, this involves an entire dictatorial government of Syria which has been mired in civil war since 2011. This has turned the country into the biggest narco- state on Earth, running multi-billion dollar operations to supply drugs and fuel the domestic conflict. Known as the 'poor man, cocaine is an amphetamine-like drug that was developed in is an amphetamine-like drug first developed in the 1960s and banned across the world in the 80s. But it's achieved massive underground popularity in the Middle East and Gulf regions, whose drug cultures often

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Portugal’s Tackling Of Drugs: Addicts Humanised Instead Of Criminalised

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 20, 20220

Combating drug addiction has always been an issue for nations as drugs keep pouring in through cartels that target wealthy countries where the populace wants to indulge and governments that have economic downtrodden where the citizens want to forget about the squalor that is their lives. At any rate, it has led to violence, cartels gaining power and influence, death due to overdoses and complications faced by drug users in regards to their relationship, effects that drugs have on their bodies and withdrawals of not taking drugs when they try to get away from the grasp of addiction. This 'War On Drugs' popularised in the U.S. has led to many nations cracking down on suppliers and drug users alike. Like The Philippines, where the police force, when suspecting or catching someone smocking ...

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Rise Of Tucibi: Pink Columbian Cotton Candy For Adults

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 18, 20220

Colombia historically struggled to control the country's supply and trafficking of drugs. Popularised by the Netflix series, the drug market and production boomed with comfort until America came to the forefront of the action and branded itself as fighting a war with drugs. With the help of the Columbian government, the trafficking of Cocaine in Columbia was suppressed. However, a new pink terror has taken over the youth, discos, and nightlife and has started to trend in Colombia. This drug is called ''Tucibi''/''Tuci''. The original drug called Tucibi has been Latinised from the chemical name 2C-B, first synthesised by Alexander Shulgin in 1974 in California. A part of the 2C families of hallucinogenic phenethylamines affected both the euphoric M.D.M.A. and L.S.D.'s visual distorti...

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Opium Production In Afghanistan: US’s Lost War Because Of Drugs In Afghanistan

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 15, 20220

American handling some or mishandling by others of the terrorist-ridden state of Afghanistan saw America removing American troops leaving the Afghan forces at their own devices, and informally ending the Afghan. Campaign after more than 20 years of conflict made Afghanistan the most protracted battle in which the U.S.A. has been involved. Many experts have pointed out religion, race and other factors benefitting their terrorist nemesis Taliban and their use of Guerrilla warfare to force the U.S. leaving the region. However, one overlooked factor that deadlocked Americans from stabilising Afghanistan was the opium poppy. After a four-year brutal conflict with the Soviet Union in 1979 led to the decimation of 10% of Afghanistan's population. During the battle, the resistance groups called...

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Drug Addiction Spread In Society Like Cancer: Lets Understand Its Repercussion

Pooja YadavJuly 6, 20220

Drug addiction is the worst social evil of contemporary civilization. It's spreading like cancer. The misguided and frustrated adults are easier to get attracted to this habit. Mostly from rich families, these people have become habitual of using drugs like heroin, smack, opium, charas, cocaine, ganja, and refined sugar. dependence could be a part of civilisation. It's thought may be a thing of fashion and modernisation. The worst aspect of this social evil is – If you begin taking drugs in fun or fashion, it becomes so habitual that it can't be left easily. it's an invite to death. This addiction not surprisingly is reaching and spreading across Asian and African countries. Dependence is self-destruction. this could take sometimes as we see just in case of cancer, but it's a sure stepp...

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HIV And Drug Abuse In India: A Correlation Causing Severe Threat

Pooja YadavMay 23, 20220

Prescription drugs just like the opiate pethidine have replaced cannabis and heroin because the drugs of choice among children in India. Most teenagers start with cannabis before moving to opiates and pharmaceuticals. the explanation is the easy availability of prescribed drugs. Sharing needles is driving new infections within the northeastern states. Drug injectors account for 1.7% of India’s HIV infections up from 0.9 to 2 years ago. With Punjab and western provinces emerging because of the new epicentres of injecting drugs these numbers are expected to rise in India. The injecting drug use accounts for approx one in three new HIV cases outside geographic region. According to UNAIDS 2009 report, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia HIV prevalence will be as high as 70% among folk...

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