This week we present you with a podcast recorded live at the book launch of ‚Drug Science and British drug policy’. We’re going to hear panel discussions on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and different approaches to drug policy with co-authors of the book. In part 1 professor David Nutt will talk with Prof Alex Stevens (Professor in Criminal Justice), Prof Val Curran (Professor of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology), and Roz Gittins (Director of Pharmacy). Tune in to hear about 50 years of failed drug policy, and what you can do to influence change. 

Drug Science and British Drug Policy: Critical Analysis of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Sentia GABA Spirit

Professor Alex Stevens

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Ecstasy (MDMA)

‚Drug policy ratchet’

Cannabinoid

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

Harm reduction 

The Drugtakers. The Social Meaning of Drug Use by Jock Young

Overdose prevention centre (OPC)

Foil for harm reduction

Baroness Wootton of Abinger

Dame Carol Black

Controlled Drug Classes

Ronnie Cowan

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Drug Science Student Society Network

Heroin

Naloxone

Human psychobiology of MDMA or 'Ecstasy': an overview of 25 years of empirical research by Andrew Parrott 

George Ricaurte MDMA Research Controversy 

Nitrous oxide

Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences in London

Intranasal Naloxone 

Khat