The UK could learn from the kind of action Scotland is taking on drug deaths.
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Fentanyl’s wide availability in the drug supply has led to an increase in unintentional overdoses. While prevention strategies are available, limited availability stymies their use.
The Office for National Statistics reports the highest drug deaths since records began in 1993.
How much more suffering and death will people who use drugs have to endure?
Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
There are proven ways to reduce drug deaths in the UK. But the government is ignoring them.
There are many ways to reduce harm from drugs at music festivals beyond the much publicised pill testing. Here’s what else we can do.
Every summer we hear of more deaths from drugs at festivals. But MDMA was originally a medicine, so how can it kill users?
Monkey dust is in the “bath salts” family. Here’s what that means.
There are proven ways to reduce drug deaths. Unfortunately, the UK government is not implementing them.
Drug deaths in Scotland are now among the highest in Europe. What can be done?
UK must now respond to arrival of fentanyl, which has for years been a major drug problem in the US and Canada.
When we think of methamphetamine-related death we tend to focus on overdose. The extent of the problem, however, extends far beyond drug toxicity.
Top contributors
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Associate Member of the Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Middlesex University, Middlesex University
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Director Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee
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Medicinal Chemist, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Chemistry, University of Dundee
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Professor of Substance Use and Inclusion Health, University of Stirling
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Addiction Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Human Rights, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Sydney
