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Ibiza Drug-Mule Arrests Offer a Glimpse Into the White Isle's Seedy Side

Ibiza Drug-Mule Arrests Offer a Glimpse Into the White Isle's Seedy Side
Briggs' book shifts the blame for such "pathological" behaviors from individuals to a complicated nexus of socio-economic forces: The low-cost airlines that ferry tourists to the island in droves; the nightclubs that profit from clubbers' extreme …
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Comment: Why the asylum problem is like the drug problem
Illicit drug use grew in Australia during the 1960s, notably cannabis use by young people and, on a much smaller scale, heroin use during and after the Vietnam War; but the hysteria which met this change was out of all proportion to the specific social …
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