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South Korea: ICE: A Cold That Cuts Flesh

Ruthie Yarbrough - January 31, 2026. Published in Kyunghyang

The United States’ demand for drugs destroys Mexico’s everyday life, and those who escape from this destroyed life are again met with the guns of U.S. ICE agents.

India: For US’ Fentanyl Crisis, Another ‘War on Drugs’ Is Not the Solution, Working with Countries Such as India and China Is

Robin Koerner - April 1, 2025. Published in The Indian Express

Sri Lanka: Highs and Lows of Trump’s Fentanyl War

Robin Koerner - March 14, 2025. Published in Daily Mirror Online

France: The New Opium War?

Robin Koerner - June 4, 2019. Published in Libération

Trump has redeployed the age-old myth of China as conspiring to cover the Western world in a thick, psychoactive smoke.

Germany: America’s Bitter Truth

Robin Koerner - November 15, 2017. Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

[The opioid] crisis combines some of the country's key challenges: a dysfunctional health care system, a one-sided justice system and the population's low education level.

Mexico: The Death of the White Man

Robin Koerner - April 29, 2017. Published in El Universal

Two great nations ... and the men on both sides choosing the fastest way to die. Something isn't right.

Germany: Drug Fatalities in the US: White, Male, Young

Robin Koerner - January 28, 2016. Published in Sueddeutsche Zeitung

It says a great deal about U.S. society and its politicians that this health problem [drug addiction] is being discussed so openly now that so many white citizens are being affected.

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