The Home Office has insisted it has “no plans” to decriminalise the possession of drugs – despite a second Westminster committee now calling for this. The Scottish Affairs Committee has
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The UK’s policy on drugs has “done nothing but go backwards” in the last decade, one of the Government’s former chief advisers has claimed. Speaking 10 years to the day
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The Home Office vetted candidates for an independent drugs advisory panel for their views on Brexit and the Windrush scandal, it has been claimed. Professor Alex Stevens quit the Government’s
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Scientists say they have developed the first simple saliva test to detect if a person has recently taken the psychoactive drug Spice. The test, which takes about five minutes, can
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MPs have called for some drug offences to be decriminalised, in a bid to prevent the rising number of related deaths. A report by the Health and Social Care Committee
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Councils have discovered more than a thousand potential victims of modern slavery in the last year, research suggests. The referrals of victims made by authorities in England have soared by
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The SNP has unanimously backed a call for control over drugs laws to be devolved to Scotland, to allow for the “decriminalisation of possession and consumption of controlled drugs”. Activists
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A unit system for cannabis similar to the one used for alcohol could improve the mental health of users, according to experts. Researchers say more needs to be done to
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Self-inflicted prison deaths in England and Wales have increased by 23% in a year, while drug abuse continues to plague facilities, despite repeated recommendations to tackle the problems, the watchdog
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Plans to give a town’s 15 worst heroin addicts two daily doses of diamorphine have been revealed. The treatment plan in Middlesbrough – using medical grade heroin – is the
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