The announcement of support for Safe Injection Facilities in Glasgow is long a overdue but very welcome decision. Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership are to be congratulated for taking these...
Our Deputy Director Will McMahon co-signed a letter in The Sunday Telegraph, published yesterday, calling for the government to join the growing global policy shift towards a health-led approach in relation to the harms of controlled substance misuse. The call comes as the government...
The stars have been in Edinburgh for the filming of Trainspotting 2. Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and other actors have been on the streets of the capital as the sequel to the 1990s cult...
Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre, writes in Scottish Herald about UK drug policy. The article was informed by the Centre's recent...
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, was among more than 1,000 public figures across the world calling on the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to support an open and constructive debate on drugs policy.
The call comes in advance of a Special Session of the UN General...
If there is a ‘war on drugs’, it’s a civil war; the main protagonists our own people not some foreign enemy.
It’s a problem that’s rooted more in social and economic inequalities, than in...
Our Director Richard Garside was one of more than 80 individuals and organisations who signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for a review of the United Kingdom's approach to illegal drugs.
The letter was organised by drugs charity Release and published yesterday as part of...
The number of deaths due to so-called legal highs has been misrepresented, according to Professor David Nutt, chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.
Writing in The Lancet with long-term collaborator Dr...
As part of our Justice Matters initiative we are challenging people to think about a criminal justice practice, policy or institution to abolish or abstain from.
It can be conventional or unconventional – the choice is up to you. The challenge isn’t just about abolishing something. We are keen to build alternatives – so we want to encourage people to put forward ideas for something positive.
It's such an obvious one... what
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Alcohol probably poses the biggest drugs harm challenge today, according to a new briefing from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
