Mephedrone, a designer drug, is a "legal high" that can be purchased via the internet, and has euphoric effects akin to cocaine or ecstasy, both of which are class A drugs.

Ten years ago, the Home Affairs Committee’s Special Report on Drugs and Prisons made a series of recommendations that are still being ignored by the Ministry of Justice.

Too many clinical trials produce results that are statistically significant but clinically meaningless, according to two US cardiologists.

Radio 4's Today programme this morning interviewed Professor Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, about politicians’ undermining, and thereby undervaluing, the evidence on the harm done by drugs. 

Thanks to staff at the House of Commons Library, and the diligence of many parliamentarians, it has proved possible to investigate how well the prison’s Integrated Drug Treatment System is wo

How smart have prisons in England and Wales been in using the information gained from mandatory drug testing? And which prisons have done better than others?

Recent parliamentary answers to astute questions from Andrew Pelling MP have provided a means of assessing the progress of the Prison Service’s Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS). 

The Government’s drug testing programme in prisons is distorted by perverse incentives, and fails to make the best use of the data collected.

In Saturday’s Guardian, Ben Goldacre dismembered a Home Office study designed to evaluate a drug education project in schools.

Patients alarmed by headlines in some papers proclaiming that drug errors by hospitals had doubled since 2006 no doubt wondered what was going on. Careless reporting is the simple answer.