Druglink article 1991 – Search and arrest by Jane Goodsir
Guidelines for drug and alcohol workers Search and arrest (PDF)Read more →
View ArticleDruglink article 1991 – Detention and questioning by Jane Goodsir
Guidelines for drug users and drug workers. Detention and questioning (PDF)Read more →
View ArticleDruglink article 1991 – Going to court by Jane Goodsir
This article deals with the procedure after the police find what they believe is evidence of a drugs offence, charge the subject and the case goes to court. Going to court (PDF)Read more →
View ArticleDruglink article 1993 – The Children Act by Patricia Kearney and Gillian...
The children Act 1989 prioritises child welfare and places duties on local authorities and other agencies working with parents and children. It also provides new opportunities for agencies such as drug...
View ArticleDruglink article 1993 – The welfare economics of law reform by Andrew Clark
An economist weighs up the pros and cons of legalisation. The welfare impact of legalising prohibited drugs would be a combination of the impact on the enjoyment of drug use, harm from drugs and from...
View ArticleDruglink article 1994 – Only way – or no way? by Harry Shapiro
Drug law reform has re-emerged on the international and domestic policy agendas. More drug use by younger people and the connection with crime have taken the debate beyond cannabis. International...
View ArticleUNGASS 2016 – The consensus holds, but only under protest
From time to time, we will be featuring guest blogs. Our first one is from Dr Axel Klein from Kent University and Editor of Drugs and Alcohol Today. Consensus on Outcome Documents and centrality of...
View ArticleDruglink interview 2014 – John Collins by Harry Shapiro
John Collins coordinates the international drug policy project at LSE IDEAS. He is the editor of the latest report to call for an end to the drugs war, but the analysis from this expert group of...
View ArticleDruglink article 2014 – Wrong arm of the law by Jessica Magson
The evidence from abroad, especially Portugal, suggests that scaling back on criminalising drug users in the UK could be a smart move, says Jessica Magson Despite major advances in drug treatment...
View ArticleDruglink article 2014 – Emerald experiment by Tim Bingham
Bold new laws introduced in Ireland to tackle legal highs and NPS dramatically cut the number of head shops. But the country’s drug users merely switched substances or modes of supply. Tim Bingham...
View ArticleDruglink article 1999 – The people on drugs: British attitudes to drug laws...
How do people in Britain feel about drug policy? There have been no large-scale surveys to find out, but a review of smaller ones is revealing. The people on drugs: British attitudes to drug laws and...
View ArticleDruglink interview 2014 – Steve Rolles by Harry Shapiro
Transform have just published a new book setting out a public health approach to constructing a legal, regulated market for cannabis. Harry Shapiro spoke to Transform’s Senior Policy Analyst Steve...
View ArticleDruglink news item 2013 – Streets legal by Max Daly
Potent ‘legal highs’ are being sold to young people in petrol stations, fish and chip shops and even pet shops, a Druglink investigation has found. Streets legal (PDF)Read more →
View ArticleDruglink article 2013 – Stop and think by Geoff Monaghan
The recently published report by Release/London School of Economics on the ethnic disparities in drug law policing has brought the controversy back into the limelight. But, argues Geoff Monaghan, the...
View ArticleDruglink article 2013 – A noxious business
When teenager Sophie smoked a legal brand of synthetic cannabis she expected to get high. But it turned out to be a nasty experience that the sellers and websites promoting the brand refused to...
View ArticleDruglink article 1999 – Touchy subject, explosive matter: volatile substance...
Solvent abuse kills more young people than ecstasy, the law tries to restrict supply but what about service provision? Touchy subject, explosive matter: volatile substance abuse (PDF)Read more →
View ArticleDruglink article 2013 – Artificial paradise by Mike Power
This year New Zealand introduced radical new drug laws in an attempt to deal with the confusion over legal highs. Mike Power on a brave experiment that hopes to marry business, science and politics....
View ArticleDruglink news item 2013 – Khat ban spells trouble for ‘Somali pubs’ by Max daly
The government has announced it will be banning the herbal stimulant khat. But at a mafrish in east London, Max Daly discovers that the decision could have a deep-rooted impact on Britain’s Somali...
View ArticleDruglink article 2013 – Spirits of the age by Harry Shapiro
As the Turkish government recently discovered, trying to rein in a long established drinking culture can be incendiary. The general perception of Prohibition in America, was that, it too, was doomed to...
View ArticleDruglink article 2000 – Law-law not war-war: National laws and international...
Research for the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, discovered that within the big three international drugs conventions there is room for manoeuvre for national drug laws. We don’t...
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