Neil Woods is a former Undercover Drugs Detective Sergeant whose brief was to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs, befriending the foot soldiers before taking on their gangster bosses. Neil risked his life to infiltrate some of the UK’s most vicious gangs, by doing so he came to realise the terrifying reality of the drug war in Britain.
During this time, what Neil discovered is that (like most wars) the war on drugs was futile at best and corrupt at worst. He’s now a board member of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) in the USA and the U.K. LEAP is a U.N. accredited NGO campaigning for an end to the war on drugs. He’s written two books, a memoir Good Cop Bad War, and Drug Wars, with JS Rafaeli.
Gabor Maté’s book on addiction and trauma
https://drgabormate.com/book/in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/
Burger bar boys
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-burger-bar-boys-gang-11796968
Chief Constable Mike Barton
https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/News%20Articles/Chief-Constable-Mike-Barton-announces-retirement-.aspx
Ron Hogg
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/a-man-people-tributes-ron-17526538
HAT/Heroin Assisted Treatment
http://www.sdf.org.uk/heroin-assisted-treatment-provided-glasgow/
Police and Crime commissioner David Jameson
https://www.westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/your-commissioner/police-and-crime-commissioner/
Drug Consumption Room
https://www.avert.org/news/world%E2%80%99s-largest-drug-consumption-facility-opens-denmark
Good cop bad war
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1110612/good-cop–bad-war/9781785032707
Drug Wars
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1114855/drug-wars/9781785037467
LEAP UK
http://ukleap.org/
LEAP
https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org/
The Stop and Search podcast
https://play.acast.com/s/stopandsearch
LEAP UK – @UKLEAP
LEAP US – @policeforreform
Neil Woods – @wudzee0
A Fascinate Productions podcast for Drug Science