https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/01/07/texas-austin-drug-fentanyl-overdose/
Jan 7, 2025 - A mass casualty event last spring lays bare the costs of the state's punitive approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent...
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https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-expanded-drug-war-will-make-overdose-crisis-worse-experts-say/
Dec 19, 2025 - An executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction could remove supports that keep people alive.
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https://jacobin.com/2025/11/trump-killings-war-on-drugs
Donald Trump’s lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific are a brutal escalation of the United States’ long-running “war on drugs,” a...
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https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trumps-drug-boat-strikes-venezuela-rcna239354
Oct 25, 2025 - Trump's military strikes against boats allegedly part a drug cartel from Venezuela are done without any public evidence or proof of who was killed in this...
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https://www.penncerl.org/news/experts-question-trumps-legal-arguments-for-his-war-against-drug-trafficking/
Oct 17, 2025 - CERL’s Professors Geoffrey Corn and Claire Finkelstein are quoted in reporting by the Associated Press on the Trump administration’s legal justifications...
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https://www.rappler.com/topic/drug-war-victims-philippines/
Former president Rodrigo Duterte left behind a bloody trail as he waged a violent anti-illegal drug campaign that led to thousands of Filipinos killed in the...
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https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3339544/chinas-weight-loss-drug-war-prices-slashed-80-obesity-crisis-worsens?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Jan 13, 2026 - Foreign, local firms fight for market share as number of overweight or obese adults could top 630 million by 2050, from 400 million in 2021.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-grand-jury-indicts-two-former-leaders-of-mexicos-drug-war-for-cartel-connections
Jul 30, 2020 - One official oversaw a unit that leaked information and triggered a massacre that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation. Though the indictment...
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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-to-know-about-trumps-war-on-drug-trafficking-from-venezuela/
Sep 12, 2025 - The recent US strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat is best understood in the context of the Trump administration’s policies toward Venezuela and the...
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https://filtermag.org/trump-drug-war-military-mexico/
Aug 22, 2025 - As drone strikes become a real possibility, more fentanyl cooks may be constantly on the move, in short-term labs with makeshift equipment.
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https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/520928/Trump-s-Venezuela-war-drums-Drug-fight-or-oil-grab
Nov 28, 2025 - TEHRAN – The latest statements from President Donald Trump mark one of the most serious escalations in the long confrontation between the United States and...
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https://news.emory.edu/features/2019/05/civil-war-medicines/index.html
Emory lab explores remedies in 1863 guide for battlefield surgeons
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https://www.pbs.org/video/drug-historian-challenges-trumps-war-on-fentanyl-aenrgl/
Nov 25, 2025 - David Herzberg discusses why he believes Trump's approach to curbing illicit drug supply is flawed.
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https://drugwar.liveuamap.com/
Get and explore breaking Mexican Drug War news alerts & today's headlines geolocated on live map
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/12/17/in-marseille-macron-redeclares-war-on-drug-trafficking_6748584_5.html
The French president visited the southern city just over a month after the killing of Mehdi Kessaci, brother of environmental activist Amine Kessaci....
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https://www.rappler.com/voices/basagan-trip-leloy-claudio-society-response-covid-19-drug-war/
Aug 14, 2022 - The pandemic was – and continues to be – a polarizing issue. Why is this so?
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https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3337789/indias-us70-million-obesity-drug-market-bulges-so-does-price-war?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Dec 26, 2025 - Pharmaceutical giants like Lilly and Nordisk are battling for dominance in India’s weight-loss market with price cuts and early launches.
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https://newrepublic.com/post/205218/trump-hegseth-war-crime-drug-boat-strikes
A bombshell report reveals how the Trump administration conducted that double-strike boat bombing.
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https://www.abs-cbn.com/focus/12/05/18/chr-chief-drug-war-deaths-could-be-as-high-as-27000
Nov 10, 2024 - MANILA - Commission on Human Rights (CHR) chairperson Chito Gascon said Tuesday that their investigation into the thousands of killings carried out by the gover
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https://www.wionews.com/photos/trump-to-expand-his-drug-war-us-president-s-ominous-warning-to-mexico-colombia-cuba-after-capturing-venezuela-s-maduro-1767591384481
Jan 5, 2026 - Trump warned Mexico, Colombia and Cuba after a US operation in Venezuela that captured Nicolas Maduro. He claimed Mexico’s leader is “scared,” hinted at...
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https://www.democracynow.org/topics/drug_war
Democracy Now! stories, posts and pages that relate to Drug War.
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https://www.penncerl.org/news/profound-consequences-to-invoking-war-powers-to-target-venezuelan-drug-cartel/
Oct 20, 2025 - President Donald Trump has once again launched a strike against a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the Caribbean Sea. At War on the Rocks, Professor
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https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/we-will-kill-you-secretary-of-war-warns-drug-traffickers-after-latest-narco-boat-destroyed/
Nov 7, 2025 - Miami, FL – The U.S. government confirmed Thursday that a military strike destroyed a narcotics-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing three people
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https://www.tampafp.com/trump-signals-impending-land-strikes-in-venezuela-drug-war-thats-going-to-start-very-soon/
Nov 27, 2025 - President Donald Trump indicated on Thursday that the U.S. military campaign against Venezuelan drug trafficking is poised to shift from maritime
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https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/business-tech/war-on-drug-resistance-goes-undersea/article70446956.ece
Scientists are exploring marine microbes to combat antimicrobial resistance and develop new drugs from oceanic genetic resources.
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https://www.cannabischronicle.net/new-drug-war/
Aug 17, 2023 - States across the country, as well as the federal government under veteran drug-warrior President Joe Biden, are falling all over themselves to free from...
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/dominican-republic-permits-us-limited-access-to-bases-in-war-against-drug-trafficking-5950598?cmt=1
Nov 27, 2025 - The temporary agreement allows refueling at the Caribbean’s country’s air base and airport as Washington continues strikes on smuggling vessels in the...
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https://manilastandard.net/news/314673919/drug-war-victims-kin-to-gather-as-icc-decides-on-rodys-interim-release.html
Nov 28, 2025 - The relatives of drug war victims are set to gather on Friday as the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber issues its decision on the interim
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https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/were-at-war-against-drug-trafficking-not-venezuela-rubio-defends-us-military-operation-against-maduro-509369-2026-01-05
Jan 5, 2026 - On Venezuela’s oil, Rubio said the US does not need it but will block rivals from gaining influence.
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https://drugpolicy.org/drug-war-history/
Sep 11, 2025 - From the first U.S. anti-drug law targeting Chinese immigrants, to Nixon starting the drug war, to the first U.S. drug decriminalization law.
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https://www.wionews.com/opinions/in-trump-s-america-fictitious-drug-numbers-and-a-new-definition-of-war-1765939889404
Dec 17, 2025 - In short, Trump’s claim of 25,000 lives saved for each boats sunk is pure fiction, crude propaganda to back up his assertion, backed up by Defence Secretary...
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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/addicted-inside-drug-trade-frontline-global-war-cannabis-fentanyl-5149341
The world faces a drugs crisis, from cannabis to fentanyl to meth. CNA visits various countries to find out how illicit drugs are made, trafficked and abused,...
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