Oliver dimly gave me a confused look, and turned his head back to the television. I felt uncomfortably hot. I set my hash brownie down and tugged at my …
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As the dust starts to settle around the Chancellor’s announcements what can we take from it? Here are the headlines in what I saw: The public health grant will …
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Nearly two-thirds of prisoners on short sentences have drug and alcohol problems and 70% go on to reoffend within a year, new figures show
“A couple of weeks before I went to prison, I spent six weeks in hospital with kidney failure because I actually tried to take my own life. Mental health …
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VolteFace invited David Cameron’s former Director of Policy, Paul Kirby, to submit a piece on the subject of prison reform. What follows is a magnum opus… There’s …
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Let me first make it clear that I am writing this piece in my personal capacity not as Chairman of the National Cannabis Coalition. I am always very …
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May 26th, 2016: The Conservative Government’s long awaited and much-criticised Psychoactive Substances Act finally comes into force, at a stroke outlawing hundreds, if not thousands, of products that had …
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In America in 1987 there was a government sponsored anti-drug campaign called ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’. It was based around a short public information film that showed …
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I have just watched the closing plenary session of the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem here in New York. Presidents and Prime Ministers …