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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.
Irresponsible publicity related to an unpublished vaping study
On the 26th of February 2025, Clive Bates wrote to an academic at Manchester Metropolitan University, Dr Maxime Boidin, about generating irr
Clive Bates
Feb 266 min read
Will the war on vaping result in more harm?
Key take-home messages: The disposable vape ban is intended to curb youth vaping, addressing the increasing use of vaping among youth in...
Drug Science
Feb 6, 20245 min read
Teaching Children about Vaping
Teaching Children about Vaping. In 2023, over 20% of children in the UK had tried vaping, up from less than 11.2% in 2021.
Hannah Dawes
Feb 5, 20243 min read
Response from Drug Science to the Australian Government consultation on potential reforms to the regulation of nicotine vaping products
Border controls No legislative changes ought to be made to Australia’s current border controls for nicotine products. The black market...
Drug Science
Jan 19, 20239 min read
Comparative harms assessments for cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco: Risk for psychosis, cognitive impairment, and traffic accident
Author Petter Grahl Johnstad Published July 25, 2022 Abstract Researchers have associated cannabis use with risk for psychosis, cognitive...
Petter Grahl Johnstad
Jul 25, 20222 min read
DHSC announces that the UK will not legalise Snus
DHSC announces that it will not legalise the world’s most successful smoking substitute The health department has stated that it will not...
Drug Science
Feb 10, 20222 min read
In My Professional Opinion - Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction
Clive Bates – Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction Nicotine without smoke? This discussion takes a brief tour through the science and policy...
Drug Science
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Drug Science submission to the WHO enquiry on vaping
Fifteen years ago, the World Health Organization developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which aims to provide...
Professor David Nutt
Feb 12, 20215 min read
From Ebola to Covid-19. Is all nicotine bad nicotine? An epidemiologist’s reflections
By Ian Sliney – Epidemiologist Forty-seven years later I still remember my first cigarette, and I was addicted to nicotine from the first...
Ian Sliney
Apr 29, 20206 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
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
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
Apr 3, 20143 min read
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