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Miguel Restrepo, 62, a former drug addict, looks up from his sewer home in Medellin, Colombia, on December 4, 2012.

Colombia Opens South America's First Safe Injection Sites

by Hannah Harris Green

July's launch of a second site signals a shift in overdose prevention that could spread across Latin America

Governance
Bar Manager Nicolas de Soto mixes a Calvados-based cocktail at ECC in Chinatown, London December 3, 2010.

Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

A woman pours alcohol from the bottle into her mouth at the Far Hills Race Day at Moorland Farms in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 17, 2015.
Food

Alcohol in Excess

How the World Health Organization plans to curb excess drinking across countries

Colombian anti-drugs policemen guard stacks of marijuana seized from the rural area of El Jagual at a military police base in Popayan October, 23, 2011.
Governance

Changing Drug Use in Colombia and Peru

by Alfonso Silva-Santisteban

People who use drugs should use them in the safest and most informed way

A drug addict uses a glass water pipe to smoke methamphetamine at an undisclosed drug den in Manila, Philippines, on June 20, 2016. The photo is a closeup of a man smoking from a glass pipe. REUTERS/Staff/File Photo
Trade

Coronavirus is a Public Health Nightmare—Now Comes One More

by A. Taylor Thomas, Emily Briskin

As the pandemic chokes off opioid supplies from China and unemployment skyrockets, U.S. meth addiction is set to explode