Julia Buxton is British Academy Global Professor. Her research focuses on illicit drug markets and the impact of counter narcotics policies on development, gender equality and security. In her career she’s led projects and worked with multiple universities around the world including the Central European University in Budapest. Outside of Europe, she has geographical expertise on Latin America and is a specialist on Venezuela. 

Now, back in England, she’s working on The Global Drug Survey project, inquiring about the drug policy preferences of drug users themselves. With this innovative approach she’s joining the conversation on drugs on the political scene in the UK. 

Tune into this week’s episode to find out about how drug policies that are older than the Internet, Thatcherism and HIV treatment contribute to inequalities arising between different countries and genders.

Shownotes:

Opioids

Cannabis

Open Society Foundations

Jonathan Soros

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Viktor Orban

Populism

Syrian refugee crisis in Hungary

Nativism

The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women: Shifting the Needle - book by Julia Buxton 

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)

Ingrid Walker

Judith Aldridge

Darknet

“Do Darknet Drug Markets Make the Bad Guys Less Bad?” Aldridge Asks 

Keir Starmer

Nicola Sturgeon

Heroin 

Cocaine

Greenwich biosciences