In this week’s News From The Drug War Front:

Locally…

• A New South Wales Health Alert has warned of powerful synthetic opioids called nitazenes  that was found  in illicit vape juice containers.

Internationally…

• 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.
• South Africa is poised to break from apartheid-era cannabis prohibition.
• 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.
• Efforts to have the ICC continue its investigation of the former President Rodrigo Duterte regarding mass extra judicial killing of drug users.

The show is co-presented by Geoff Ward and Marion Watson.