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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.
Drug Science and COVID-19
A note from our Founder – Professor David Nutt Though all the Drug Science team have been on lockdown work has gone on hardly interrupted...
Professor David Nutt
Apr 27, 20202 min read
Society’s inconsistent moral judgements of potentially harmful activities
What do horse riding, motorsports, base jumping, mountain climbing, storm chasing, and drug use have in common? They are of all course...
Professor David Nutt
Mar 6, 20209 min read
The Unintended Consequences of Prohibitionist Policies - Mephedrone
Mephedrone is the common name for 4-methylmethcathinone. This is a synthetic derivative of cathinone, first synthesized in 1929, and...
Drug Science
Feb 24, 20203 min read
THC vs Alcohol Impaired Driving
By Dr. Shanna Marrinan Since the 2nd of March 2015, it has been illegal to drive with predetermined amounts of particular drugs...
Dr Shanna Marrinan
Dec 23, 20197 min read
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...
Professor David Nutt
Dec 11, 20197 min read
Law on psychedelic drugs blocks vital medical research
Professor David Nutt’s recent comment in ‘The Times‘ addresses how the ‘Law on psychedelic drugs blocks vital medical research‘. In the...
Drug Science
Dec 11, 20192 min read
Drug policy in UK has regressed in past decade, says former chief adviser
On the 30th of October 2019, our Founder – Professor David Nutt spoke at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies with Professor Alex...
Drug Science
Nov 4, 20192 min read
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
Oct 24, 20196 min read
Cannabis health information labels: why it’s time to have mandatory warnings as part of any legal cannabis market
Prof. Adam Winstock – Global Drug Survey 2019 As the tide of cannabis regulatory reform wafts through North America and beyond, it...
Professor Adam Winstock
May 22, 20194 min read
Why medical cannabis is still out of patients’ reach—an essay by David Nutt
Cannabis is arguably the world’s oldest medicine, with evidence of such use from 3000 year old tombs in Egypt and Siberia. It had a place...
Professor David Nutt
May 3, 20191 min read
Drug testing, disposals and dealing: outcomes of the UK’s first onsite drug checking service
An alarming rise in drug-related deaths at music festivals can be countered by testing illicit substances onsite, according to the first...
Dr. Meg Spriggs and Professor David Nutt
Dec 3, 20182 min read
The Global Commission on Drug Policy misses the mark
Author: Willem Scholten Published: November 22, 2018 The Global Commission on Drug Policy launched a report on the world drug...
Willem Scholten
Nov 22, 20181 min read
Controversies in substance misuse in the older person
There are a range of issues facing us in relation to substance misuse in the older person: some are ongoing controversies and...
Drug Science
Nov 10, 20184 min read
Class A is no solution to the problem of 'monkey dust'
The recent spate of headlines about the rising use of monkey dust drug in Stoke on Trent has led to calls to it to be made a Class A drug...
Professor David Nutt
Aug 5, 20184 min read
A fentanyl future?
Today’s report of over 60 deaths last year in which fentanyl was implicated raises major alarm bells in the opioid treatment community....
Drug Science
Aug 5, 20173 min read
Recreational MDMA testing - a European perspective
As the United States experiences an overwhelming opioid crisis; as the world’s press is flooded with extra-judicial killings targeting...
Drug Science
Feb 5, 20178 min read
THCv - an abject cop-out from the ACMD, another research opportunity for the UK lost
The cannabis plant produces over 100 compounds with therapeutic potential. Most of these have never been properly studied because of the...
Drug Science
Jan 24, 20174 min read
‘Scotch mist’: the ongoing saga of Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing
‘Scotch mist’ may be taken to refer to a whisky-based beverage (Scotch whisky, crushed ice and lemon peel). More traditionally, the term...
Drug Science
Dec 10, 20166 min read
Better late than never? After 82 years the WHO reviews cannabis!
The WHO is the world’s leading health organisation guiding governments around the world. So we expect their advice to be up to date and...
Drug Science
Dec 10, 20163 min read
I blame Fabric’s closure on this country’s backward drugs policy
A version of this post was published in The Guardian It seems the London club Fabric has had its licence revoked on the grounds that its...
Drug Science
Sep 10, 20163 min read
The poppers ban is a veiled attack on pleasure
ntercourse. Why is the government so anti-pleasure, particularly for gay men? Much of the drive to ban legal highs has come from the...
Drug Science
Mar 10, 20161 min read
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