MCDA Comparison of Drug and Alcohol Harms in the UK
Authors David J Nutt, Leslie A King, and Lawrence D Phillips Published November 1, 2010 An assessment of the various harms of drugs used recreationally in the UK using multi-criteria…
Drug Science ketamine review
Authors Celia J. A. Morgan and H. Valerie Curran Published July 21, 2011 The first comprehensive review of the drug since its classification, DrugScience’s ketamine review highlighted harms such as…
Ketamine as an essential medicine
Authors Polly Taylor, David Nutt, Val Curran, Rudi Fortson, and Graeme Henderson Published March 11, 2016 A letter to The Lancet endorsing the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence’s conclusion…
New analysis of alcohol and cannabis – what’s the harm?
This blog discusss DrugScience’s latest multi-criterion decision analysis of cannabis and alcohol regulation. Read the open access paper here. We’re all used to weighing up the benefits and pitfalls in…
First safety study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in patients with alcohol use disorder
Authors Ben Sessa, Chloe Sakal, Steve O’Brien and David Nutt Published July 15, 2019 Read the full paper here (open access) We present the preliminary data in the Bristol-Imperial MDMA-for-Alcoholism…
Medical cannabis in the UK: From principle to practice
Authors Anne Katrin Schlag, David S Baldwin, Michael Barnes, Steve Bazire, Rachel Coathup, H Valerie Curran, Rupert McShane, Lawrence D Phillips, Ilina Singh, David J Nutt Published June 10, 2020…
So near yet so far: why won’t the UK prescribe medical cannabis?
Authors David Nutt, Steve Bazire, Lawrence D Phillips, Anne Katrin Schlag Published September 21, 2020 This Drug Science research was published in the British Medical Journal Open, you can download…
Medical cannabis dependence: A critical review of issues and evidence
Authors Anne K Schlag, Chandni Hindocha, Rayyan Zafar, David J Nutt, H Valerie Curran Published February 17, 2021 This Drug Science research was published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. For…
Psychedelic Microdosing – Just a Placebo Effect?
Authors Balázs Szigeti, Laura Kartner, Allan Blemings, Fernando Rosas, Amanda Feilding, David J. Nutt, Robin L. Carhart-Harris, David Erritzoe Published March 2, 2021 What is microdosing? Psychedelic microdosing involves consuming…
Controversies in Medical Cannabis
Authors Anne Katrin Schlag, Saoirse E. O’Sullivan, Rayyan R. Zafar, David J.Nutt Published May 18, 2021 Knowledge about the therapeutic potential of medical cannabis has greatly improved over the past…
