Opinion Rights + Justice Politics Canada Joins Trump’s New Ill-Fated ‘War on Drugs’ Repression of the drug trade always fails and often makes things worse here and abroad.

The toxic drug crisis is estimated to be killing tens of thousands of people a year in North America – including around 105,000 in the U.S. and 8,000 in Canada.

Meanwhile, instead of embracing this realization and legalizing some drugs, which don't destroy lives, the U.S. has waged a war on drugs for over 5 decades now, after the term was popularized by ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

While most headlines fixate on border walls and migrant surges, the Trump administration has quietly redrawn the front lines of America’s war on fentanyl. This time, there are no boots, no ...

Travis Lupick’s new book, ‘Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival’ (The New Press), will be available as of Jan. 4, 2022.

During Stephen Harper’s decade in power, the Conservatives maintained a war-on-drugs approach to the challenges of addiction and fought against the provision of the life-saving services at ...

At the time, the US government was focused on “the complete social rehabilitation of America’s drug addicts,” and “the discovery of a permanent cure for drug addiction.” The first of the country’s two ...

Don Winslow's epic trilogy about America's longest war, which he launched with "The Power of the Dog" in 2005 and continued with "The Cartel" in 2015, comes to a powerful ...