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Psychedelics can trigger insight, but behavior change takes time and a changed environment to take root. Through personal stories, participants will explore the concept and process of change in psychedelic therapy. How do psychedelics redefine medicine and science, and how can we effectively reintegrate them into contemporary society? Speakers: Neal Goldsmith Psychotherapist and Counselor Rick [...]

Breaking the Taboo,2011

What’s The Score is a documentary film for young people in Sheffield, looking at drugs and substance use/misuse. Interviews with young people, medical professionals and drugs advisors, including Professor David Nutt, Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, and former drugs advisor to the government. It examines the top ten most used drugs by [...]

Drugs and Prisons in Argentina from WOLA on Vimeo.

Drugs and Prisons in Bolivia from WOLA on Vimeo.

Drugs and Prisons in Brazil from WOLA on Vimeo.

Drugs and Prisons in Mexico from WOLA on Vimeo.

Drugs and Prisons in Ecuador from WOLA on Vimeo.

Alcohol prohibition may have been repealed in 1933, but Americans have rarely been more intoxicated with the “noble experiment” than they are today.  

A new film from the Economist Film Project series entitled “Raw Opium,” explores a substance with the power to both ease pain and destroy lives. Much of the world’s poppy crop used to make heroin is smuggled out of Afghanistan. And in Helmand Province earlier this week, Afghan and coalition troops destroyed more than $350 [...]