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‘Worrying’ War on Drugs Rhetoric Comes with Human, Financial Costs

BRATISLAVA, February 19 (IPS) – Drug reform campaigners have called for an overhaul of global drug controls amid an increasingly complex and deadly drug situation in the world and as hardline anti-drug approaches are increasingly being used as cover for repression of civil society and human rights defenders.

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