Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

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• Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine
• Monday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Nigel Bennee.

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

The regulation of drugs – including alcohol and tobacco – is an issue of pressing importance due to the increasing health care costs associated with their use and the new sorts of synthetic agents being developed and sold over the internet.

My talk will reflect on these issues in the light of my ten years experience on the governments Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs from which I was sacked about a year ago. I shall present new analyses that compare the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology and challenge many of the current misconceptions about drugs – their harms – and how to deal with them.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) series.

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