Britain’s ‘alternative social service’
Legendary 1960’s charity Release is Britain’s only specialist provider of legal advice to drug users. But can it survive in the age of spending cuts and “big society”? Release , one of Britain’s most iconic charities, associated indelibly with 1960’s counter-culture and the hippy underground, and in its heyday dubbed “the welfare branch of the alternative society,” faces financial crisis and may …
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Dragging death inquest calls for changes
A coroner’s inquest into the 2008 dragging death of a man in Ladner has resulted in a call for changes to how hospitals deal with mentally ill patients and more control over the dispensing of methadone to addicts.
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David Nutt: ‘The government cannot think logically about drugs’
The former government adviser on drugs explains why his latest research named alcohol as the most dangerous drug If someone were to invent a perfectly safe ecstasy pill, what would be done about it? It’s the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usually at around 6am, a little the worse for wear after a big night out. It’s less common to hear it from a neuropsychopharmacologist and …
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