Was ketamine the cause of Matthew Perry’s death?
By Prof David Nutt The death of Matthew Perry from a combination of ketamine and drowning is a sad loss of an exceptional talent. Understandably his fans and the public…
Response from Drug Science to the Australian Government consultation on potential reforms to the regulation of nicotine vaping products
Border controls No legislative changes ought to be made to Australia’s current border controls for nicotine products. The black market and mislabelling of nicotine e-liquids exists precisely because Nicotine Vaping…
The poppers ban is a veiled attack on pleasure
ntercourse. Why is the government so anti-pleasure, particularly for gay men? Much of the drive to ban legal highs has come from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a rightwing…
David Nutt on Alcohol as a Drug
https://youtu.be/fqxWLJigMk0 David Nutt – Deep Dive into Alcohol Alcohol is among the most harmful of all recreational drugs, and yet it is the most widely used in the UK. But…
Ketamine for Alcohol Use Disorder
Written by Tiago Vasconcelos. A review of the recent paper – ‘Adjunctive Ketamine With Relapse Prevention–Based Psychological Therapy in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder’ by Grabski et al., 2021…
How the law against synthetic cannabinoids might destroy pharmaceutical discovery in the UK
On December 14th the government put into effect new controls against a whole range of synthetic cannabinoids. This was their third round of controls against these new hyper-potent recreational cannabis…
The case of the Norwegian teen who died from synthetic cannabinoids
Authors Jon F Olsen Published September 21, 2018 During the Easter holiday in 2015, 22-year-old Egil André Kvelstad Myhre was found dead in his apartment, after a cardiac arrest .…
Drug Testing and Synthetic Cannabis in Prisons
Written by Professor David Nutt Late on Saturday night, the 27th of February, I was asked to speak on the Stephen Nolan show on BBC Radio 5 about cannabis in prisons. The…
