![]() Through ingenious ways, cocaine started arriving in bulk and the business quickly began to grow exponentially. Fast-forward to today, the drug trade business is extremely well-organised, highly lucrative, and its focal point moved to Europe.įor transportation into Europe and beyond, Western European coastal regions form a crucial gateway for drug import and export. Through globalisation and subsequent increasingly transnational drug trade, the ‘War on Drugs’ internationalised. Starting in the 1970s, an assortment of policies was implemented with several main targets: warding off illegal drug production, supply, and consumption, as well as issuing treatment and increase prevention. The dominant approach of battling drugs as a public health issue and crime catalyst finds its roots in President Nixon’s America, with 2021 marking the 50 th anniversary of the ‘War on Drugs’. Despite counterefforts, the battle in its current shape and form is an unfeasible endeavour – but giving up is no alternative either. This uncontrollable and dangerous amalgamation of the criminal world and the legal society includes, but is definitely not limited to, investments in real estate subsequently used to generate a legal income stream, purchasing of bars, restaurants or sports clubs to launder money, corrupting and murdering of lawyers and notaries, and mass-scale tax evasion. Money earned in this lucrative business is increasingly invested (and laundered) in legal goods, services, and companies. The corollaries of contemporary drug trade undermine the very foundations on which our societies are built. A similar drug business which scourged Miami forty years ago (with visible aftershocks to this day) has now reached Europe’s shores. Although the United States has been the primary export market for cocaine, West European harbours are turning into a 1980s Miami. This so-called ‘War on Drugs’, is very much like the ‘War on Terror’ it is a costly, vast, and extraordinarily difficult undertaking. ![]() As a result of drugs impacting societies at large – with or without common conscience – governments have increased efforts to tackle organised criminal networks involved in drugs business. Some are highly aware of this, others not at all. Loughborough Uni - New research finds 90,000 people die in poverty in the UK each year.In an age when the speed of information can often outstrip the speed of verification, the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that it is crucial to cut through the noise and focus on facts, a lesson that we must heed in order to protect societies from the impact of drugs (UNODC, 2021)ĭrugs affect everybody, one way or another. "You can have a cow that is four times as productive with the same survivability."įrance 24 - Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal.īBC - Polio virus detected in London sewage samples. Newsmax - Twitter Board Approves Elon Musk's $44 Billion Deal.ĭaily Mail - American Airlines ENDS service to three destinations and 380 flights are cancelled and 3,600 delayed Monday - with 100 ALREADY late or axed for Tuesdayįuturism - Bill Gates Is Working With Geneticists to Create the "Perfect" Cow LA Times - Yes, a recession looks inevitable. MSN - Germany considers making mask-wearing COMPULSORY from October to March in public places.ĭaily Mail - 'You the type of fella to remind the teacher she forgot to assign homework!' COVID-crazed epidemiology professor is blasted for tweet shaming United flight attendant for not wearing mask. Mirror - Long Covid IS a disability, tribunal rules in landmark discrimination case. News Medical - Each SARS-CoV-2 reinfection causes more severe disease. Yahoo - 'The emergency phase of COVID-19 is over': Doctors' group urges Biden administration to revise guidelines for children. MedRxiv - Naturally-acquired Immunity Dynamics against SARS-CoV-2 in Children and Adolescents. Research Square - Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection.
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