Scientists In The Firing Line
11 January 2012
Details
- When: Wednesday 11 January
- Where: The Courtroom, Kedleston Road, DE22 1GB
- Time: 6.30pm
Can we bring reason to government policy on alcohol and other drugs?
Education Health and Science Faculty guest speaker Professor David Nutt, of Imperial College, London.
The regulation of drugs - including alcohol and tobacco - is an issue of pressing importance due to the increasing health care costs associated with their use and the new sorts of synthetic agents being developed and sold over the internet.
The talk will reflect on these issues in the light of Professor Nutt's ten years experience on the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs from which he was sacked.about a year ago.
Professor Nutt shall present new analyses that compare the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology and challenge many of the current misconceptions about drugs - their harms - and how to deal with them.
