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At Drug Science we like to cover different topics relating to drugs. These topics cover the many different ways that psychoactive substances have an impact on our culture and society.

Will the war on vaping result in more harm?

Drug Science

Feb 65 min read

Policy

Will the war on vaping result in more harm?

Key take-home messages: The disposable vape ban is intended to curb youth vaping, addressing the increasing use of vaping among youth in...

Hannah Dawes

Feb 53 min read

Educational Slides

Teaching Children about Vaping

Teaching Children about Vaping. In 2023, over 20% of children in the UK had tried vaping, up from less than 11.2% in 2021.

Drug Science

Jan 19, 20239 min read

EHRWG

Response from Drug Science to the Australian Government consultation on potential reforms to the regulation of nicotine vaping products

Border controls No legislative changes ought to be made to Australia’s current border controls for nicotine products. The black market...

Comparative harms assessments for cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco: Risk for psychosis, cognitive impairment, and traffic accident

Petter Grahl Johnstad

Jul 25, 20222 min read

DSPL

Comparative harms assessments for cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco: Risk for psychosis, cognitive impairment, and traffic accident

Author Petter Grahl Johnstad Published July 25, 2022 Abstract Researchers have associated cannabis use with risk for psychosis, cognitive...

DHSC announces that the UK will not legalise Snus

Drug Science

Feb 10, 20222 min read

Nicotine

DHSC announces that the UK will not legalise Snus

DHSC announces that it will not legalise the world’s most successful smoking substitute The health department has stated that it will not...

In My Professional Opinion - Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction

Drug Science

Feb 18, 20211 min read

Videos

In My Professional Opinion - Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction

Clive Bates – Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction Nicotine without smoke? This discussion takes a brief tour through the science and policy...

Drug Science submission to the WHO enquiry on vaping

Professor David Nutt

Feb 12, 20215 min read

Response

Drug Science submission to the WHO enquiry on vaping

Fifteen years ago, the World Health Organization developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which aims to provide...

From Ebola to Covid-19. Is all nicotine bad nicotine? An epidemiologist’s reflections

Ian Sliney

Apr 29, 20206 min read

Guest authors

From Ebola to Covid-19. Is all nicotine bad nicotine? An epidemiologist’s reflections

By Ian Sliney – Epidemiologist Forty-seven years later I still remember my first cigarette, and I was addicted to nicotine from the first...

The vaping crisis - Questions and answers by Clive Bates

Professor David Nutt

Dec 11, 20197 min read

Nicotine

The vaping crisis - Questions and answers by Clive Bates

Foreword by Professor David Nutt Lies, damn lies and vaping statistics- To paraphrase Disraeli’s famous critique of statistics the...

Statement on the dangers posed by e-cigarettes

Drug Science

Oct 24, 20196 min read

Response

Statement on the dangers posed by e-cigarettes

Drug Science stands by its e-cigarette analysis from 2014, any way of radically reducing the death toll from tobacco would be a worldwide...

Drug Science

Apr 3, 20143 min read

David Nutt

Harms of nicotine-containing products

Around the world, politicians are working to ban e-cigarette marketing, limit their nicotine content, prohibit use in public buildings,...