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Drug Science and British Drug Policy: Critical Analysis of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

by Ilana Crome
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781914603266
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Waterside Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Waterside Press
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  • Pages: 332
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 422 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Drugs & the Law, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology

For half a century the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has dominated ill-conceived approaches to the prohibition of drugs and the criminalisation of many offenders. Wilful blindness to scientific facts has distorted the dispensation of justice, prevented lifesaving investigation, sidelined critics and thwarted advocates of politically inconvenient drugs law reform.

This once in an epoch review by experts from a range of disciplines shows how lawmakers and the media have ignored the scientific evidence to sustain badly founded rhetoric in favour of blanket bans, punishment and the marginalisation of opponents. Countless individuals (including the vulnerable, deprived, addicted and mentally ill) have therefore suffered unnecessarily.

This, the most comprehensive critique of the 1971 Act yet, rests on the combined learning of leading medical, scientific, psychiatric, academic, legal, drug safety and other specialists to provide sound reasons to re-think half a century of bad law.


Crome, Ilana: - Ilana Crome Is Professor Emeritus of Addiction Psychiatry, Keele University. She has contributed widely to research, training and policy on addiction and substance use and is an editor of major textbooks in this field.

Nutt, David: - Professor David Nutt is founder of Drug Science UK and the author of over 500 papers and 35 books around the topic.

Stevens, Alex: - Alex Stevens is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Kent and has worked on issues of drugs, crime and public health in the voluntary sector, as a researcher and as an adviser to the UK Government. The editors are supported by 25 experts of considerable standing in the field of drug policy, education and research.

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