I have spent much of my professional career analyzing drug trafficking trends and their impacts. One question that continues to confound me is why more people aren’t talking about it.

Since the arrival of Bitcoin in 2008, the world’s first decentralized cryptographical digital currency, the crypto domain has been catapulted from sets of obscure programming passion projects to a highly dynamic sector worth $2 trillion.

More and more Americans are seeking out healthier, greener and more ethical alternatives to meat, but are plant-based alternatives like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat truly nutritious substitutes?

In a first, the U.S. government is funding clean syringe programs for people who use drugs, and New York City has approved supervised drug use sites. Here’s how the controversial strategy of harm reduction is at work in hospitals and on city streets.

The history of the movement, as told in Maia Szalavitz’s recent book, is one of unlikely success. But what can we learn from embattled experiments like prescribed heroin?

Today, India has the second largest tobacco population in the world. Over the last three decades, the Indian government has been instrumental in implementing tobacco control policies regulating tobacco products.

Paid in part by Michael R. Bloomberg’s billions and U.S. taxpayers, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially denounced e-cigarettes and vapor products. In a mystifyingly misleading report published July 27, the WHO has demonized e-cigarettes.

The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability pushed for the adoption of national policies prohibiting government agencies from receiving foreign grants without transparency.

To people in the United States, billionaire Michael Bloomberg is most well-known as a swashbuckling former New York City mayor who blew a lot of money on an ill-fated presidential primary run.

The issue of foreign funding of NGO’s especially engaged in anti-tobacco lobbying is an age-old menace with far reaching ramifications. Owing to the skewed efforts of global anti-tobacco associations, Indian tobacco industry has historically seen stringent regulations.