New Labour’s law, order and cpntrol agenda is cutting a swathe through public sector working practices. the drugs field is not immune Hard Labour: Blair warfare (PDF) Additional keywords: compulsory treatment
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Druglink article 2013 – Alive and kicking in doors by Geoff Monaghan
Geoff Monaghan challenges the view that drug law enforcement is dead in the water. I was interested to read Matthew Bacon’s thought-provoking article Endangered species (Druglink January/February 2013) concerning the “decline in the number of drug squads and the deprioritisation of drug law enforcement” in Britain. The…
Druglink news item 2013 – Ganja games by Max Daly
Press claims that the ‘Lambeth experiment’ on cannabis resulted in soaring rates of hospital admissions for Class A drugs were wafer-thin on evidence. In April, two national newspapers declared that research proved a softer approach to policing cannabis under Labour in the 2000s ramped up…
Druglink article 2000 – Law-law not war-war: National laws and international obligations by Nicholas Dorn
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 all have to have the same laws or…
Druglink article 2000 – Misguided missiles: Drugs war in Colombia by Axel Klein
Britain supports the US war on drugs in Colombia and it may be that British firms are developing biological controls for coca Misguided missiles: Drugs war in Colombia (PDF)
Druglink Findings 2013 – Costs of failure to offer maintenance prescribing in prisons
An international team of experts led by Dagmar Hedrich of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has argued that failure to implement effective opioid maintenance in prisons represents an important and possibly costly missed opportunity to engage high-risk drug users in treatment. Costs of failure…
Druglink 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 failure. But was it a total flop? Spirits of the age…
Druglink article 2000 – Out of Africa – In to trafficking by Axel Klein
The rise of the Nigerian global trafficking syndicates Out of Africa – In to trafficking (PDF)
Druglink 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 issue of stop and search is not black and white – but fifty shades…
Druglink 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 Rolles Interview: Steve Rolles (PDF)