News From The Drug War Front -Podcast- 28th November 2023

<p>In this week’s News From The Drug War Front:</p> <p>Locally…</p> <ul><li>A New South Wales Health Alert has warned of powerful synthetic opioids called nitazenes  that was found  in illicit vape juice containers.</li> </ul> <p>Internationally…</p> <ul><li>In the US, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Nora Volkow has called an abstinence only approach “catastrophic” for the OD crisis.</li> <li>South Africa is poised to break from apartheid-era cannabis prohibition.</li> <li>A brilliant 2-part report “Taxcast -Drug War Myths” printed in “New Internationalist: magazine, and posted on their website November 24 has been posted on the “News from the Drug War Front” Facebook page.</li> <li>Efforts to have the ICC continue its investigation of the former President Rodrigo Duterte regarding mass extra judicial killing of drug users.</li> </ul> <p>The show is co-presented by Geoff Ward and Marion Watson.</p>