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This is how, since 2010, the British Conservative Party has disastrously restructured UK drug treatment – and how tens of thousands of people may have died as a result.

At 19, Ian Bick owned a nightclub and ran raves featuring some of the world's biggest acts. By 21, he was facing prison for defrauding investors out of nearly $500,000.

A.I. expert Matthew Stamm is trying to help the world spot deepfakes before they go viral. But can his technology keep up when faked videos always seem a step ahead?

From Nazi soldiers on methamphetamine to Britain’s global narco empire, we explore the centuries old relationship between drugs and warfare.

In order to understand the most radical extremism in the world, Julia Ebner goes undercover online to some of the darkest corners of the internet - including ‘incel’ forums.

From California to Kiev, far-right MMA groups are training their members for political violence. It’s a fast-growing scene that has become more than just a sport...

An ex-orangutan trafficker describes how orangutans are captured, bought and sold, the distances they travel to customers, and why there is such a demand.

Author Tom Wainwright breaks down the economics of a drug cartel to explain how they function like businesses, and why cocaine costs $120,000 per kilo.

Piloting a drone around Chernobyl is eerie, dangerous, and hugely important. At the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, experts search for deadly nuclear waste.

In Afghanistan, America was defeated as much by the illegal heroin trade as by the Taliban itself. This is how heroin and violence have shaped Afghanistan as a country.

VICE investigates how criminals use social media to recruit often unsuspecting young people into laundering their illicit money, turning them into “money mules”.

Gregoire Akcelrod was a bad footballer who was determined to be a star. Helped by a sham CV, he was about to sign with a top club when fans realized his story was fake.