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Drug Trafficking: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

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The authors of this editorial do not believe that they are subject to any conflicts of interest relevant to the present editorial. As members of Addiction’s editorial staff, each of them provides a general statement on conflict of interest on the journal’s website: http://www.addictionjournal.org/ethicalpolicy.asp.

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, National Addiction Centre, King’s College London, London, UK

    Griffith Edwards & John Marsden

  2. University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA

    Tom Babor

  3. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Shane Darke

  4. University of Queensland, Herston, Qld, Australia

    Wayne Hall

  5. Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

    Peter Miller

  6. University College London, London, UK

    Robert West

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Edwards, G., Babor, T., Darke, S. et al. Drug Trafficking: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty. Int J Ment Health Addiction 8, 616–619 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-009-9236-y

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