Video: Neil McKeganey on optimism, legality and public health challenges

Footnotes

1) Newspaper Article: Drug legalisation is no solution – its a disaster waiting to happen [Guardian September 09]

"How would Britain look were we to follow the Latin American road to drug legalisation? The effectiveness of a government-regulated drug trade is already evident in the alcohol-fuelled violence that plagues so many of our cities, and in the increasing numbers of teenagers who define a good night out as one that ends in blind drunkenness."

2) Book: Controversies in Drugs Policy and Practice [Neil McKeganey]

Controversies in Drugs Policy and Practice
Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (9 Dec 2010)

3) Paper: Alcohol research and the alcoholic beverage industry [Thomas F Babor Addiction 2009]

Alcohol research and the alcoholic beverage industry: Issues, concerns and conflicts of interest

[Thomas F Babor Addiction 2009]

Volume 104, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 34-47

Aims Using terms of justification such as ‘corporate social responsibility’ and ‘partnerships with the public health community’, the alcoholic beverage industry (mainly large producers, trade associations and ‘social aspects’ organizations) funds a variety of scientific activities that involve or overlap with the work of independent scientists. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the ethical, professional and scientific challenges that have emerged from industry involvement in alcohol science.

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Griffith Edwards obituary >>

25th September 12 – When he started, the only approach to treating alcoholics was to shut them up for a long time in hospital. Griff, always open to new ideas, challenged this approach by carrying out a study comparing inpatient and outpatient treatment of alcohol dependence.

Dr. Griffith Edwards, Addiction Specialist, Dies at 83 – NYT >>

25th September 12 – Dr. Edwards reshaped thinking about heavy drinkers and their problems, about the psychology of drug use and its treatment, and about the policy implications for governments and health agencies seeking to reduce abuse

National survey of hepatitis C services in prisons in England published >>

23rd July 12 – The first dedicated survey of hepatitis C services in prisons in England shows that diagnosis and treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection is available to prisoners in most prisons in England

Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK, First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results >>

23rd July 12 – Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK, First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results: This article will present estimates of subjective well-being from the first annual experimental Annual Population Survey (APS) Subjective Well-being dataset for April 2011 to March 2012.

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Neil McKeganey on optimism, legality and public health challenges