Sunday, 25 June 2017

New Directions and the dangers of individualism

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A few weeks ago I was at the annual conference of the wonderful New Directions in the Study of Alcohol Group (NDSAG) , which also hosted t...
Monday, 19 June 2017

Who can buy an alcohol service?

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This is a slightly longer post than usual, as it’s (almost) the words I spoke at the recent New Directions conference in Weston-super-Mare...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Reflections on the Psychoactive Substances Act one year on

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One of the most interesting developments in UK drug policy in the last few years has been the introduction of the Psychoactive Substances Ac...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Is research really something special?

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As I've mentioned before on this blog, I've been pretty busy over the past few months, as we've been re-procuring almost all of...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Is drug policy about drugs?

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This week, I’ve been at a mini-conference to discuss prohibition through different periods of history and across different countries and so...
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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Alcohol, productivity and morality

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Work has been pretty busy lately, so I hope readers will forgive me posting about what might seem to be ‘old news’.  But, as anyone who’s s...
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Monday, 13 March 2017

Stigma and drug regulation

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about stigma and words relating to substance use.  Carl Hart recently wrote a piece arguing that understan...
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