Helen Redmond

The de­crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of drugs in Por­tu­gal has been a suc­cess, but aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures may threat­en drug treat­ment.

In the US, 45,000 peo­ple die every year be­cause they can­not af­ford ba­sic med­ical ser­vices, ac­cord­ing to a Har­vard study.

Soli­tary con­fine­ment in the new dun­geons of the US trig­ger men­tal ill­ness in pris­on­ers.

The nar­cotics trade thrives in Afghanistan, but why are pop­py lords not pros­e­cut­ed with the same zeal as the Tal­iban?