This month the Volteface directors, Liz McCulloch and Paul North, reflect on the year gone by and what it has meant for drug policy. We’ve had MPs investigate …
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This extract is taken from Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things by Tom Gash, out now from Allen Lane, £14.99 Here, Gash carefully examines how people …
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In the past eight months, over 7,000 people have been murdered in the Philippines, stupefying the rest of the human-rights conscious world. “If Germany had Hitler, The Philippines would …
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A lot has changed in drug treatment in the past twenty years. Countless contracts have come and gone, entire providers have gone out of business, several drug strategies …
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“What are you smoking there, mate?” a middle-aged man with a Stone Island jacket and brown Timberland boots (this was 2006) asked as he rapidly approached me in a …
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“Doctors are misinformed, patients are misled and millions of people are taking medication with no benefit for them.” More than one billion prescriptions are dished out in the UK …
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Cannabis is by a long way the most used illegal substance in the UK and young people are quite at home with that concept. The majority find it easier …
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For years, the conversation around addiction and drug policy has been shaped by a stark binary. Either addiction is a sin, which should be dealt with via the criminal …
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As we celebrate the launch of our first print edition and reach the six month anniversary of our online magazine, we wanted to pay our respects to the …