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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
Dec 11, 20192 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 2, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt - Centre for Crime and Justice Studies talk
This event was held ten years to the day that Professor David Nutt was fired from his role as chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse...
Professor David Nutt
Aug 8, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: The Roots of Cannabis Policy Change
The Roots of Cannabis Policy Change David’s talk will explore the basis of cannabis being a controlled drug with a focus on the political...
Professor David Nutt
Aug 8, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: Banning psychedelics - the worst censorship of scientific research ever?
Professor David Nutt explores how psychedelics have been useful for scientists and how their banning has impacted scientific research....
Drug Science
May 15, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: The New Psychedelic Revolution
Oxford Psychedelic Society and Oxford Psychology Society hosted a special lecture by Prof. David Nutt followed by an extensive one-hour...
Professor David Nutt
May 3, 20191 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...
Drug Science
Mar 27, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: Why It's Time To Change The Drug Laws - To Improve Treatment and Research
‘Why It’s Time To Change The Drug Laws – To Improve Treatment and Research’ with Prof. David Nutt. Filmed at Cambridge Skeptics on...
Drug Science
Feb 2, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: Royal College of Psychiatrists President's Lecture
On 1 November 2018 cannabis products changed in legal status from a controlled drug without medical use to a Schedule 2 medicine has...
Professor David Nutt
Jan 12, 20191 min read
Professor David Nutt: 'Not all in the mind' public lecture
The University of Manchester in association with the British Association for Psychopharmacology were proud to welcome Professor David...
Professor David Nutt
Sep 3, 20181 min read
South Africa decriminalises personal possession of cannabis
Prof David Nutt spent 10 days providing evidence to the South African courts in 2017 – he reflects on South Africa’s positive decision to...
Professor David Nutt
Aug 5, 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
May 5, 201811 min read
Addiction: from basic neuroscience to clinical treatments
This blog piece is a book chapter written by David Nutt from a book on addiction, targeted at Sixth Form and secondary school students...
Drug Science
Jan 10, 20174 min read
How the law against synthetic cannabinoids might destroy pharmaceutical discovery in the UK
On December 14th the government put into effect new controls against a whole range of synthetic cannabinoids. This was their third round...
Drug Science
Sep 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...
Professor David Nutt
Jul 13, 20151 min read
Professor David Nutt: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water: Irrational Drug Laws and Medical Research
Filmed at Breaking Convention: 3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, 10-12th July, 2015 Links within video:...
Drug Science
Feb 10, 20153 min read
The UK needs common sense about ketamine
A version of this post was published in The Guardian Ketamine is a unique anaesthetic and analgesic that has unfortunately become a...
Drug Science
Jan 10, 20154 min read
The Superman pill deaths are the result of our illogical drugs policy
A version of this post was published in The Guardian The past week has seen a number of drug disasters in the UK, one of which is the...
Drug Science
Apr 3, 20143 min read
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,...
Drug Science
Mar 27, 20144 min read
“Ravaged by drugs”? Let’s spread facts, not fear; science, not stigma
Today the Mail, Telegraph and others have been featuring the vile and dehumanising “More than Meth” campaign, which invites us to gasp...
Drug Science
Mar 10, 20143 min read
Figures for UK deaths from legal highs cannot be trusted
A version of this post was published in The Guardian At the last G8 summit, the prime minister said legal highs are a serious concern and...
Professor David Nutt, Leslie King and more
Apr 3, 20103 min read
MCDA Comparison of Drug and Alcohol Harms in the UK
Authors: David J Nutt, Leslie A King, and Lawrence D Phillips Published: November 1, 2010 An assessment of the various harms of drugs...
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