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Turning health policy into Benefits Street
Blood borne viruses have hit the mainstream news this week. This is rare, given the magnitude of the public health crisis awaiting us, but has been reported in an unsurprisingly trashy manner. Steroid...
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Drug service, anyone?
I have been quiet for some time, but something momentous has happened, there are things that need to be said, and again the words have started whirring.. This week, our drug services have been...
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If the UN trust politicians, should we trust them?
Another international agency has formally documented its concerns about the UN’s data collection methods around international levels of drug use. In my article about Count The Costs’ Alternative World...
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Stick reclassification up your K-hole
The Government are now considering upgrading ketamine to Class B, as they have just realised it is popular and causes bladder damage. Fingers on the pulse again there, guys. Not only did they miss the...
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Comment from follower
This comment, sent by a follower of my blog, is both and informative and hilarious enough for me to want to share it with you all. I couldn’t agree more – or put it more eloquently. Uruguay have today...
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Random drug testing is ‘grievous and oppressive’
Drug testing is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon in the UK, and is gaining popularity both in workplaces and criminal justice systems. Agreeing to random drug tests is often a contractual...
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What do you like more: your drugs or your genitals?
I know some of you probably think I was scare-mongering when I wrote Maurice the Feline, and I know there are many MCat users out there who take the drug without more than mild side-effects – but spare...
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An acceptable overdose
Another prominent drugs death, that of Philip Seymour Hoffman, has again exposed society’s moral judgements about drug users. Reports of the ‘tragedy’ of his death portray Hoffman as a victim, a...
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Legal drug-pushers and the US smack boom
It’s nearly a year since I warned about bumper heroin crops in Afghanistan, and months since raising the issue of soaring opiate painkiller abuse in the US. Yet the debate is still fresh, it seems,...
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“See, I’m not an alcoholic.”
I’m a bit slow off the mark with this one (and everything else, currently), but I have just become aware of the Dry January campaign. I know, for many, a solid ten days of fourteen-hours-a-day alcohol...
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