Authors
Christopher Humphries
Published
November 14th, 2022
This narrative review describes the background to the introduction of the UK Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, and developments since the Home Office review of the Act in 2018. It discusses the challenges when measuring illicit drug proliferation, and triangulates the impact of the Act by using data from multiple public sources. It looks at both the direct impacts of the Act, and indirect impacts on other forms of drug use, and identifies the discrepancy between politically expedient legislation and real-world harm reduction.
This research was published in the Drug Science, Policy and Law Journal the definitive source of evidence-based information and comment for academics, scientists, policymakers, frontline workers and the general public on drugs and related issues
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