
A welfare system that buys drink for alcoholics, drugs for addicts and sweets for the obese is cruel, not compassionate
It is obscene that people have been left in limbo and handed cash rather than given help for their problems.
It is obscene that people have been left in limbo and handed cash rather than given help for their problems.
If the trend of the last decade continues, it won’t be long before America has a million active heroin users.
The pace of innovation is now so fast that the authorities have trouble keeping up with it.
A blanket ban may seem disproportionate, but is necessary to stay ahead of the chemists and suppliers who deal in these substances.
Just under a third of prisoners say it is easy to get drugs in prison. Seven per cent say they have developed an addiction while incarcerated.
Conventional courts focus on the crime being tried, when the real problem that needs to be addressed lies within the individual who committed it.
The leading addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever says the Government’s proposal is right.
The reason why heroin use is falling in Europe but rising in the USA.
Public health builds mechanisms for limitless state interference in our lives but with no clear case for why living longer justifies overriding personal freedom.
Lord Farmer’s maiden speech yesterday in a debate on Women, Homelessness, Domestic Violence and Social Exclusion.
Public and media opinion have shifted while Westminster’s stance on the failing War on Drugs remains the same. How long will the mismatch last?
Tackling the demand for an illegal product could be a better tactic than either banning or regulating its supply.
As it stands, it’s too easy for drug users to “game” the system – or avoid punishment if they do get caught.
A mixed economy, an internationalist country, live and let live – the ideals I’d like to see it stand for.
Both are socially evil and should be prosecuted on the basis of sufficient evidence.