Colorado and Washington State have both legalized marijuana, after victory in referenda. This chapter is the story of the people who led this fight...

Jose Mujica was kept at the bottom of a well for nearly three years by the Uruguyan dictatorship in the 1980s. He emerged to lead his country – and...

Fourteen years ago, Portugal decriminalized all drugs – from cannabis to crack. This chapter is the story of Dr Joao Goulao, the extraordinary...

In the early 1980s, a doctor called John Marks was posted to Merseyside, and began to massively expand a program that prescribed heroin to addicts....

In the year 2000, a homeless drug addict on the streets of Vancouver was watching his friends die all around him. He started an uprising – one that...

This is the story of a scientist who discovered the biggest cause of addiction, in a startling experiment that blew my mind, and I suspect will blow...

This is the story of a baby who was smuggled out of the Holocaust and grew up – partly because of that experience – to discover one of the key...

This is a chapter about how drug use is not what we have been taught it is – and there is a very different story waiting for us, when we are ready...

This is the story of a mother whose daughter went missing in Juarez – and how she turned herself into a detective to track down her killer. This...

This is the story of two teenagers in Ciudad Juarez, which was one of the deadliest cities in the world when I visited in 2012. One became a hit-man...