“Psychedelic drugs have come a long way. They once belonged to the counterculture (“tune in, drop out”). Now they are finding a home in the C-suite… Business leaders have also become more candid about wellness at work.”
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Thomas Graham , “Fentanyl may enter the US from Mexico, but the drug of choice there is different,” The Guardian, 08/12/2024. [Link]
“Use of crystal meth is soaring among workers, partiers and the young and threatening a public health crisis.”
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Stephanie L. Ayers, Stephen S. Kulis, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Ana Paola Campos, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, “Keepin’ It REAL – Mantente REAL in Mexico: Longitudinal Examination of Youth Drug Resistance Strategies and Substance Use among Early Adolescents,” National Library of Medicine (National Center for Biotechnology Information, 01/09/2024. [Link]
“This study examined if culturally and linguistically adapted versions of a U.S.-developed adolescent substance use prevention intervention, keepin’ it REAL (kiREAL), for Mexico increases the use of drug resistance strategies, and if increased use of resistance strategies subsequently leads to a reduction in the frequency of substance use (i.e., alcohol, cigarette, marijuana, and inhalants).”
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Brian Osgood, “What is the legacy of Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador? Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/what-is-the-legacy-of-mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador#ixzz8uEGVo1Ds,” Aljazeera, 30/09/2024. [Link]
“A debate is already raging over the legacy that the Mexican leader, widely known as AMLO, is leaving behind.”
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Jesus Bustamante, ” Mexico president visits 'El Chapo's' home turf, shakes hands with his mother,” Reuters & El Universal, Mexico, 20/03/2020. [Link]
“BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday shook hands with the mother of the country’s most infamous drug trafficker, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, during a visit to their hometown, long a stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel.”
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Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, “The Gender Effects of the Militarization of Migratory Controls in Mexico. Violence against Migrant Women Perpetrated by the State,” Routledge. Chapter at the book "Gender Based Violence in Mexico", edited By Ana Luisa Sánchez Hernández, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Francisco Díaz Estrada, 28/11/2024. [Link]
This piece is a companion of Alethia Fernandez de la Reguera video presentation
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Rachel Nolan , “Do Cartels Exist?,” Harper´s Magazine, 01/07/2023. [Link]
A revisionist view of the drug wars. “Discussed in this essay: Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala, translated by William Savinar. Vanderbilt University Press. 206 pages, AND The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade, by Benjamin T. Smith. W. W. Norton. 480 pages.”
“Cartels do not exist. What you have is a collection of drug traffickers. Sometimes, they work together, and sometimes they don’t. American prosecutors just call them cartels to make it easier to make their cases. It is all part of the game.”
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Jared Olson, “How AMLO has fueled Mexico´s Drug War,” Foreign Policy , 23/06/2022. [Link]
“He campaigned on “Hugs, Not Bullets.” Now, he’s militarized the country.”
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Patrick Radden Keefe, “The family that built an empire of pain,” The New Yorker, 23/10/2017. [Link]
“The Sackler dynasty´s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars – and millions of addicts.”
“An addiction specialist said that the Sacklers’ firm, Purdue Pharma, bears the “lion’s share” of the blame for the opioid crisis.”
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“June 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the war against drugs… Since 1971, U.S. sepnt over a trillion dollars enforcing its drug policy, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania. Why the U.S. hasn´t won the war against drugs?… war on drugs has done more harm than good, according to many experts… Racially biased mass incarceration has also profound impacted communities of color…”
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