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Neil McKeganey

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Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research in Glasgow and former Government drug policy advisor.
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Why I shed no tears for these drug legalisers

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THERE has been shrieking commentary in the press following the resignation of Professor Alex Stevens from the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of...
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Dopey logic of a legaliser

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IN a recent article in the Times, the Economist policy editor Emma Duncan breathlessly recounts her dalliance some 20 years ago with cocaine, concluding...
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Drugs treatment training? No, a love-in for legalisers

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A conference which is widely attended by drug treatment staff in England and Wales is fast becoming an exercise in drug legalisation propaganda. The...
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Centre for Policy Studies goes out of its mind on drugs

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Oh dear, the Centre for Policy Studies has gone all soft on drugs. In a witless and ill-informed article on drugs policy, Hannah Bettsworth,...
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Drug abuse is a crime issue, not a health issue

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The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner is on a mission to legalise drugs within his area. Last year his office organised a meeting...
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Neil McKeganey: Good sense kills the not-so-safe injecting centre

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Last week Scotland’s leading law officer, the Lord Advocate, brought a shuddering halt to a proposal from Glasgow City Council to develop a safe...
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Dr Neil McKeganey: We can no longer hide the full horror of our drugs epidemic

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Anyone viewing the recent photographs from the North Wales Daily Post newspaper of the inside of Wrexham Bus Station here and here will be shocked...
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Neil McKeganey: Expert drug advisers turn a blind eye to the dire failings of the methadone programme

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The UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has given the UK’s national methadone programme a bullish seal of approval – it’s not...
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Dr Neil McKeganey: Four jumbo jets packed with youngsters crashing every year. The true toll of the so-called drugs war

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I spoke last weekend at a conference on recovery from drug addiction in the picturesque beauty of Henley on Thames. Two of the other...
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Neil McKeganey: The so-called Global Drugs Commission is a front for legalisation

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The loftily entitled Global Commission on Drugs has just released a new report, “Taking Control: Drug Policies that Work”, which has garnered disproportionate media...
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Neil McKeganey: Time for tough action over legal highs. The CSJ is right to take ministers to task

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The Centre for Social Justice has just produced a report “Ambitious for Recovery” on how well the UK is doing in tackling its drugs...
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Neil McKeganey: We are winning the war on drugs. Don’t let Clegg lose it

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When senior politicians and political parties are on the skids you can be sure that they will grab every headline going in an attempt...
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