‘Curb drink culture’ says drugs expert David Nutt

New restrictions needed for leading cause of deaths of men under 50New restrictions are needed on Britain ’s drinking culture, which is behind a huge rise in deaths of men and women under 50, according to the government’s former chief drug adviser, sacked a decade ago for claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.Ahead of a speech to the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies on 30 October,10 years after the then home secretary AlanJohnson fired him, Prof David Nutt said the net contribution of successive governments to drugs policy had been to make things worse.Continue reading...
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