Maverick News

Cheap and nasty — heroin use in South Africa surges as price plummets

By Jesse Copelyn

Op-eds

Deadly synthetic cannabis kush takes hold of the youth in west Africa’s Mano River Basin

By Feyi Ogunade

South Africa

SA is facing a fast-escalating heroin crisis — and it’s being misunderstood

By Jesse Copelyn for Spotlight

South Africa

Drug use in South Africa surged over past two decades: study

By Jesse Copelyn for Spotlight

South Africa

Five steps in five years – a to-do list to help South Africa kick its heroin habit

By Zano Kunene

South Africa

Pain management in South Africa a sore point for palliative care and medical regulations

By Elsabé Brits

Africa

Trade-offs in managing tramadol abuse in Central Africa

By ISS Today

South Africa

Analysis: Stop the deception, legalise drugs

By Chris Gibbons

Business Maverick

How American junkies fund the Taliban (and other stories from the other side of the war on terror)

By Richard Poplak

Sci-Tech

Codeine's bad rep: should it be banned?

By Andy Rice