On 10 September 2020, we organised a webinar to discuss the interactions between drug policies and the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable people. We were delighted to be joined by guest speakers; Neil Woods, author of bestseller 'Good Cop: Bad War' and Chairperson of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP UK); Coletta Youngers, Senior Fellow at [...]
In this blog post Mr Haynes-De Vita shares his experience of working in the drug and alcohol sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the last 6 weeks my work has taken me to various homeless hostels and independent living accommodations all over Hampshire where drug and alcohol use is high. Due to the lockdown those [...]
“There is a very tragic human story behind this market analysis. Drug deaths in 2018 were the highest on record… Problem drug use is highly correlated with poverty, and these problems blight our most deprived communities.” Dame Carol Black The Dame Carol Black review was released last week [...]
In this blog, Dr Karina Garcia Reyes shares her experience interviewing Mexican drug cartels for her PHD research. Which sheds light on the catastrophic impact of drug prohibition and how it fails to protect vulnerable people from harm and the futility of governments to fight violence with violence. This article is republished from The Conversation [...]
