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• MDMAを用いたセラピーのセッションが、トラウマの処理を助けることで兵士たちがより長く戦い続けられるようになることへの期待 • 麻薬戦争が終結に近づく中、新たなドクトリンが間もなく定着する可能性がある。それは、PTSDに苦しむ現役兵士へのサイケデリック薬の投与だ。 • 国防総省（DoD）が資金提供する2つの研究において、PTSDを抱える186名の軍関係者が、来年にも複数回のMDMAを用いたセラピーを受ける見込みである。

• U.S. Justice Departmentは2026年4月29日、Sinaloa州知事 Ruben Rocha Moya とその他9名の現職および元Mexican officialsをSinaloa drug cartelへの支援の容疑で起訴した。 • 起訴内容ではmoney launderingやprotection racketsを含む汚職が告発されており、カルテル運営における大きな打撃を意味している。 • これはfentanyl危機や国境警備を巡るU.S.-Mexico間の緊張を激化させ、今後はextradition battlesが生じる可能性がある。

起訴状は、Sinaloaの州政府高官らが麻薬密売、武器関連犯罪、誘拐などの罪を犯したと告発している。米国司法省は、Sinaloa cartelとの癒着が疑われるとして、Sinaloa州知事と現旧の当局者9人を起訴し、米国への不法薬物の大規模な輸入を幇助したとして告発した。一部の当局者はメキシコの進歩的な与党Morenaの党員であり、Trump政権からの強まる圧力に対処しようとしているメキシコのClaudia Sheinbaum大統領にとって、政治的な難題を突きつけている。 続きを読む...

Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico was not aware of US participation until four officials were killed in car crashClaudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said on Monday that her government told the United States, in a diplomatic note, that the unauthorized presence of US officials at an anti-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua should not be repeated.The incident came to light after two US officials, along with two Mexican officials, were killed in a car crash on 19 April after the operation. Sheinbaum has said the federal government was not aware of the participation of the US officials, who were widely reported to be CIA officers. Continue reading...

Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharmaDozens of MPs are opposing Wes Streeting’s decision to award himself power to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs amid growing concern the move may be illegal.Thirty-one MPs have signed a House of Commons motion voicing their disapproval of the health secretary being handed the power to override the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (Nice) judgment on how much the NHS should spend on individual medicines. Continue reading...

Small boat destroyed in video posted on social media as US campaign has killed at least 178 people since SeptemberThe US military announced on Friday that it killed two people in an attack on a boat in the eastern Pacific, part of a series of deadly strikes on vessels in recent months which it claims are targeting “narco-trafficking” operations.The US Southern Command declared in a social media post on X that Gen Francis L Donovan directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear, the counter-narcotics unit that operates in the region, to carry out a lethal strike. The US military posted a video, which it labeled unclassified, showing a small boat being destroyed in an explosion. Continue reading...