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In this Aug. 3, 2007, file photo, psilocybin mushrooms are seen in a grow room at the Procare farm in Hazerswoude, central Netherlands. 
Medicine
Study: ‘Magic’ mushrooms show promise for treating severe depression
A woman typing on a laptop on a train in New Jersey
Internet
What comes after Hydra, the darknet marketplace that changed everything?
Officers gather kratom plants in Phang Nha province, Thailand. Thailand on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia.
Health & Medicine
Thailand legalizes kratom, a mild narcotic leaf
A fire medic holds a box containing naloxone hydrochloride which is carried in all their department's emergency response vehicles, in Akron, Ohio
Health & Medicine
With rising overdoses, British Columbia expands experimental prescription initiative
A nurse administers a shot to an elderly man wearing a white T-shirt and black pants at his home.
COVID-19
Dual citizens in Mexico seek vaccine options in the US as rollout lags
A photo illustration of vaccine bottles and a syringe
World faces risk of ‘vaccine nationalism’ in COVID-19 fight, says CEPI chair
Mae Salong
Conflict & Justice
They were CIA-backed Chinese rebels. Now you’re invited to their once-secret hideaway.
Bags of white powdery fentanyl on a table.
Health
How the deadly drug fentanyl is making its way to the US
a white bottle of Oxycontin sits on a shelf.
Health & Medicine
How do our brains react to drugs? A former addict turned neuroscientist explains.
A woman in a factory
Conflict
In one Oklahoma county, the number of women in prison is falling. This treatment program might be why.
X-ray conveyor belt with luggage.
Justice
She was arrested for carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine into Canada. Her court case changed the law.
The icon for female is behind bars surrounded by a brick wall.
Conflict
There are more women in prison than ever before
Nancy Polanco Najera
Conflict
As more women are incarcerated in Mexico, so are their babies
A portrait of inmate Carmela Rodriguez Reyes in Mexico.
Conflict
Women filling Mexico’s prisons are the ‘lowest rungs of the drug trade’
Photographers are huddled around a protest on the sidewalk. There are newspapers laid out on the sidewalk, drizzled in red paint to look like blood, while a person wearing a skull mask pretends to lay dead next to them. The words "No mas" are written.
Conflict
Officials: 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year in two decades
A relative of a victim cries behind the police line at the site of a recent drug-related shooting by unidentified men riding on motorcycles in Manila.
Conflict
Philippine President Duterte praises the police killings of 32, urges more
wall with two people at bottom looking up
Global Politics
The White House threatens to take Congress to the mat on the border wall
Rice paddies Bangladesh
Economics
Meth’s new frontier: The Islamic marshlands of Bangladesh
Asa Hutchinson
Justice
A federal judge halts six executions in Arkansas, citing ‘cruel and unusual punishment’
Jennelyn Olaires, the partner of Michael Siaron whom police said was killed by a vigilante group in Manila.
Conflict
The rule of law in the Philippines gives way to more summary executions
Smoke from a pink methamphetamine pill, heated on foil, rises into a water bong pipe in Myitkyina, Myanmar. Meth pills branded with the number "88" are believed to signify 1988, a celebrated year in which a popular uprising tried to oust Myanmar's hated m
Conflict
Myanmar’s state-backed militias are flooding Asia with meth
John Jairo Velásquez — commonly known as "Popeye" — gives his testimony against fellow Colombian drug cartel members in 2006.
Justice
The release of ‘Popeye,’ a trusted assassin for Pablo Escobar, enrages many Colombians
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.
Conflict & Justice
Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.
Conflict & Justice
Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well
Health & Medicine
Judge rules Plan B must be available to all without a prescription
Greening the DNC
Global Politics
Drug czar on Ciudad Juarez, black market for prescription drugs