The cocaine trail
Special reports on the narcotics crisis
Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report
Grasping the nettle: five strategies for a pressing problem
Middle class habit that leads to crime, violence and destruction
Growing cocaine trade linked to international gang crime to be addressed in UN drug conference
Fears for stability in west Africa as cartels move in
How porous borders and poverty make fertile terrain for drug traffickers in west Africa
Divisions over tactics delay UN declaration
Agreement stalled as countries debate 'war on drugs' approach versus 'harm reduction' strategy
As guns go south, drugs - and violence - go north
Spreading fear: how the new cartels deliver chaos to four continents