Organisations and Experts Call for Rethink of Drug Possession Proposals
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Open letter: Individuals and organisations working in drug policy, health and social care, criminal justice, and human rights call on Government to rethink proposed approach to drug possession offences
We express our serious concerns over the proposals in The Home Office’s ‘Swift, Certain, Tough: New Consequences for Drug Possession’ White Paper released in July 2022. The proposed extension of punitive policing targeting people who use drugs runs contrary to the overwhelming body of evidence, and threatens to draw limited resources into policies likely to exacerbate a range of social and health harms.
The proposals focus on punishing ‘so-called recreational users’ who are not dependent on drugs. Targeting this large population will require a dramatic scaling up of policing, including the use of stop and search. Stop and searches for drugs already account for two-thirds of all searches, disproportionately impacting marginalised and ethnic minority communities, particularly Black people. These proposals will further undermine trust in law enforcement and already-strained community police relations.
The Home Office’s own research has stated that the £1.6 billion a year spent on drug law enforcement has little impact on drug availability. Home Office research has also concluded there are no clear links between intensity of punitive enforcement and levels of use. But punishment and criminalisation of people who use drugs has repeatedly been shown to undermine health and life opportunities of the most vulnerable individuals and communities, fuelling stigma and discrimination, and creating obstacles to proven health and social interventions.
As drug related deaths reach new records, the Government should be targeting limited resources on health interventions proven to reduce harms. These proposals will do the opposite.
We urge the Government to instead develop a genuinely public health centred approach. and focus on evidence-based health interventions that target those in need, while avoiding harmful punishment and criminalisation of the very groups we are seeking to support. This process can usefully be informed by emerging UK and international best practice, not least the growing evidence base, and ongoing research, from existing Police diversion programmes already operating in 14 UK Police authorities.
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Organisations
Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Release
Faculty of Public Health
Association of Directors of Public Health
British Medical Association
NHS Addictions Provider Alliance
English Substance Use Commissioner's Group
College of Mental Health Pharmacy
The Police Foundation
The Criminal Justice Alliance
Liberty
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drugs, Alcohol and Justice
Blackpool Council
Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership
Addiction Professionals
Alcohol and Drugs Action
Andean Action (Bolivia)
Anyone’s Child: Families for Safer Drug Control
Asociación Costarricense para el Estudio e Intervención en Drogas (Costa Rica)
Barod
C Communications Agency
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
Cardiff and the Vale Drug and Alcohol Service
Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation (Canada)
Change Grow Live
Collectif Urgence Toxida (Mauritius)
Commons Law CIC
Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group
Correlation-European Harm Reduction Network
Cranstoun
Crew 2000
Drug Policy Alliance (USA)
Drug Policy and Harm Reduction Platform (Malawi)
Drug Policy Australia
Drug Policy Interdisciplinary Network
Drug Policy Network Southeast Europe
Drug Science
DrugWise
É de Lei drop-in centre (Brazil)
Early Break
East Renfrewshire Alcohol and Drugs Partnership
European Network of People who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD)
Faculty of Public Health Drugs Special Interest Group
Foreningen Tryggere Ruspolitikk/ Safer Drug Policies (Norway)
Forum Akar Rumput Indonesia
Forward Trust
Fundación Latinoamérica Reforma (Chile)
GAT- Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (Portugal)
Gay Men’s Health Collective
Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership
Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association
Green Leaf Party (Israel)
Groupement Romand d'Etudes des Addictions - GREA (Switzerland)
Harm Reduction Australia
Harm Reduction International
Harm Reduction Nurses Association
Health Poverty Action
HIT
HIV Legal Network (Canada)
Inquest
Instituto RIA AC (Mexico)
Intercambios Civil Association (Argentina)
Intercambios Puerto Rico
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Kaleidoscope
Labour Campaign for Drug Policy Reform
LEAP UK
Mainline Foundation (Netherlands)
Metzineres (Spain)
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. (MAPS). (USA)
National AIDS Trust
National Harm Reduction Coalition
National Needle Exchange Forum
Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)
Police Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC) UK
Prisoners' Advice Service
Project 6
Public Health Action Support Team
Revolving Doors
Scottish Centre for Policing and Public Health
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
Service Users Involvement Team, Wolverhampton
Single Homeless Project
Social Linkages for Youth Development and Child Link (Sierra Leone)
Students for Sensible Drug Policies (UK)
Students for Sensible Drug Policy International
The Association for Humane Drug Policy (Norway)
The Centre for Justice Innovation
The Connection at St Martin's
The Corbett Network for Prisoner Reintegration
The Global Drug Survey
The John Mordaunt Trust
The Love Tank CIC
The People's Recovery Project
The Queen's Nursing Institute
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research
The Substance Use and Associated Behaviours Research Group
The Wallich
The Wilder Network
Transform Justice
Turning Point
Turning Point Scotland
UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health
University College London Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health
UNJUST C.I.C
Volteface
Washington Office on Latin America (USA)
West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN)
With You
Youth RISE
Professionals
Allan Dorans MP, SNP
Andrew Boff AM, Conservative, London Assembly
Anne McLaughlin MP, SNP
Ben Lake MP, Plaid Cymru
Caroline Lucas MP, Green
Cllr Asher Craig, Labour, Deputy Mayor, Bristol City Council
Cllr Chris Kennedy, Labour, Hackney Council
Cllr Katrina Ffrench, Labour, Richmond and Wandsworth Councils
Crispin Blunt MP, Conservative
Dan Carden MP, Labour
Dr Dan Poulter MP, Conservative
Grahame Morris MP, Labour
John McNally MP, SNP
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP, SNP
Monica Lennon MSP, Labour
Ronnie Cowan MP, SNP
Stewart Hosie MP, SNP
Stuart McDonald MP, SNP
Tommy Sheppard MP, SNP
Adam Whitehouse, Substance Use Services Team Leader, BAROD
Adele Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Middlesex University
Advocate Rup Narayan Shrestha, Human Rights Lawyer
Aiste Navickaite, Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist, Southwest London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Aleister Adamson, Legal Adviser, Release
Alex Feis-Bryce, CEO, Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Alice Gregorie, PhD student, University of Leeds
Alicia Nieto Brotons, INPUD
Alkyoni Athanasiou-Fragkouli, Research Officer, Drug Science
Amber Marks, Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary University London
Amber Windsor, Substance Misuse Worker/PhD candidate/Associate Lecturer of Law and Criminology RHUL, Oasis Project/University of Goldsmiths/Royal Holloway University
Andrea Nagel
Andreana Sutherland
Andrew McAuley, Reader in Public Health
Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt, Coordinator, The John Mordaunt Trust
Andy Beck, Consultant in Public Health
Ann Sharpe
Anna Brook, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Anna Deane
Anna Goulding, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Faculty of Public Health
Anna Norton, Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Arran Crawford, Mental Health Nurse, Turning Point Scotland
Ashley Dunlop, Public Health Nurse, NHS
Astrid Grindlay, Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS
Aura Roig Forteza, Executive Director, Metzineres
Bambang Yulistyo Dwi M, Paralegal, AKSI Keadilan Indonesia
Barend Strydom
Becky Clarke, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ben Stuttard, Solicitor, Criminal Law, Commons Law CIC
Bryan Duncan, Supervisor Drug and Alcohol Worker, ADA Aberdeen
Camille Robert Groupement Romand d'Etudes des Addictions - GREA
Cara Middleton, Staff Nurse
Carla Hobart, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Carolyn Blake, Researcher, University of Glasgow
Catherine Jane Trimble, Drug and Alcohol Speciality Doctor, NHS
Charlie Mack, CEO, Cranstoun
Chris Matthew
Chris Paling, Drug Worker, The VC Gallery
Christiane Jenkins, PhD candidate in Addiction Studies), SUIT (Service Users Involvement Team) Wolverhampton University
Clare Hitchcock
Cynthia Fernando, Legal Caseworker, Release
Dafydd Thomas, Pharmacist, ABUHB
Daniel Murray, Barrister, 25 Bedford Row - Criminal Barristers
Daniel Stewart, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Danilo Falzon, Research Assistant, University of Stirling
Danny Morris, Hep C Trust
David Badcock, CEO, Drug Science
David Wylie, Substance Misuse Service Manager, The Wallich
Dawn Maycock
Debra Lapthorne, Retired Regional Director of Public Health
Donna Thain, Sexual Health, BBV and Harm Reduction Manager
Donnchadh Greene, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
Dorna Ghashghaei, Deputy Lead Pharmacist
Dr Adam Holland, Co-Chair, Faculty of Public Health Drugs Special Interest Group
Dr Adam Westall, Lecturer in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Adrian Garfoot, Treatment Doctor ret.
Dr Alex Dymock, Senior Lecturer in Law, Dept of Law, Goldsmiths University of London
Dr Alex Wodak, Harm Reduction Australia
Dr Allen Gallagher, Research Fellow, University of Bath
Dr Angela Attwood, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Bristol
Dr Arif Rajpura, Director of Public Health, Blackpool Counil
Dr Arwen Joyce, Lecturer, University of Leicester
Dr Ashlee Christoffersen
Dr Basil McDonald, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Benjamin Bowman, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Bethany Ferris, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Brendan Coyle, Lecturer in Criminology, Ulster University
Dr Brian Payne, Senior Lecturer and Subject Lead for Criminology, Ulster University
Dr Catherine Dodds, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Bristol
Dr Cedomir Vuckovic, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Christine Haigh, Swansea Bay University Health Board
Dr Christopher J Byrne, Post-doctoral Researcher & Senior Public Health Officer, Dundee University
Dr Ciaran Kennedy MBChB MSc PgCert DFPH, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Claire Ferraro, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Dagmar Myslinska, Lecturer in Law, Goldsmiths University of London
Dr Daniel Marshall, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Dean Connolly, Public Health Specialty Registrar & Academic Clinical Fellow
Dr Deborah Jump, Criminologist
Dr Dominic Addison, Psychologist
Dr Eldin Fahmy, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Dr Ella Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich
Dr Emily Crick, University of Bristol
Dr Eric Silverman, Research Fellow, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Dr Estelle Zinsstag, Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
Dr Ethan Nadelmann, Founder, Drug Policy Alliance
Dr Gabrielle Nugent-Stephens, Lecturer in Criminology, Ulster University
Dr Gernot Klantschnig, University of Bristol
Dr Gillian W Shorter, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Giulia Zampini, Associate Professor in Criminology and Social Policy, University of Greenwich
Dr Hannah Farrimond, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
Dr Hannah Maiden, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Helen Rand, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich
Dr Ian Marder, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Maynooth University
Dr Iona Lyell, Public Health Doctor
Dr Jack Spicer, University of Bath
Dr James Morgan
Dr James Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Stirling
Dr Jamie Buchan, Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
Dr Jennifer Cook, Doctor in Addictions Medicine, CGL
Dr Jennifer Fleetwood, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Goldsmiths University of London
Dr Jennifer Randall, Senior Lecturer in Global Health, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Jenny Scott, Pharmacist /Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Dr Jo Kesten, Research Fellow, University of Bristol
Dr João Martins, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Jonas von Hoffmann, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)
Dr Jonathan Leighton, Executive Director, Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)
Dr Joseph Tay Wee Teck, Addictions Professional & GP of 15 years in areas of deprivation
Dr Juan Francisco Palma, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Dr Julie Harris, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Ulster University
Dr Karenza Moore, Academic, Newcastle University
Dr Kathryn Skivington, Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Dr Kirsten Rivelin, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Kirstin Anderson, Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier UNiversity
Dr Kojo Koram, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London
Dr Laura Parker, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Leah Moyle, Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Lena Holzer, Lecturer in Law, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Linda Moore, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Ulster University
Dr Luke Johnson, Public Health Specialty Registrar & Doctor
Dr Magdalena Harris, Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Maria Fotopoulou
Dr Marian Buhociu, Lecturer in Criminology, University of South Wales
Dr Marisha Wickremsinhe, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mark McCann, Research fellow, University of Glasgow
Dr Mark Monaghan, Reader in Criminology, Loughborough University
Dr Matthew Grundy-Bower, Consultant Nurse
Dr Matthew Lariviere, Lecturer in Social Policy
Dr Melissa Bone, Associate Professor, University of Leicester
Dr Michael Alexander, Trainee in Public Health, Faculty of Public Health
Dr Michael Lynskey, Chief Research Officer, Drug Science
Dr Michelle Rouse, Lecturer, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Ulster University
Dr Mike Salinas, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Miles Mack, General Practitioner, Dingwall Medical Group
Dr Miranda Bevan, Lecturer in Law, Goldsmiths' University of London
Dr Nataly Papadopoulou, Assistant Professor in Law
Dr Paul Gray, Reader in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Peter Elton, Clinical Director, Strategic Clinical Networks, NHS England
Dr Phoebe Beedell, Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol
Dr Rachel Barry, Researcher, University of Bath
Dr Rachel Thomson, Clinical Research Fellow
Dr Rayyan Zafar, PhD Neuropsychopharmacology and Psychedelics, Imperial College London
Dr Rebecca Askew, Reader in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Ricard Faura, University Professor and Cultural Bridge Weaver, ICEERS
Dr Richard Wild, Programme Lead MA International Criminology, University of Greenwich
Dr Rick Doblin, Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. (MAPS).
Dr Rob Green, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Wirral Borough Council
Dr Rosie Baker, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr Ruth Fletcher, Reader in Medical Law, Queen Mary University London
Dr Saket Priyadarshi, Associate Medical Director, NHS GGC
Dr Sally MacVinish, Public Health Specialist Registrar
Dr Sarah Stacey, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Shane Mac Giollabhui
Dr Sharon Greenwood, Programme Director for master’s in public health and Lecturer in Public Health, University of Glasgow
Dr Tanzil Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer in Public Law, Queen Mary University London
Dr Tim Wyatt OBE, Consultant Microbiologist, NI Public Health Agency
Dr Timothy Godden
Dr Tom Frost, Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester
Dr Tom May, Research Fellow in Behavioural Science and Public Health, University of Bristol
Dr Tom Nutting, Psychiatrist, NHS
Dr Tom Yates, Clinical Lecturer, University College London
Dr Una Convery, Lecturer in Criminology, Ulster University
Dr Victoria Canning, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Bristol
Dr Victoria Carlisle, Senior Research Associate in Public Health, University of Bristol
Dr William Turner, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Bristol
Dr Zara Hansen, Public Health Specialty Registrar
Dr. Tara Lai Quinlan, Lecturer in Law and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
Eliot Charles Russell
Emeritus Prof Margaret F Bassendine, Newcastle University
Emma Crawshaw, CEO, Crew 2000
Emma Makepeace, Barrister's clerk, 25 Bedford Row - Criminal Barristers
Emmanuel S. Kamonyo, Human Rights Lawyer, Etude Legale Stewart Istvanffy
Emmanuelle Andrews, Policy and Campaigns Manager, Liberty
Fenella Sentance, Advocate, Release
Fraser Hoggan, CEO, Alcohol and Drugs Action
Freddy Beacham, Student Administrator, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Georgia Threadgold, Senior Project Manager (Hepatitis C Elimination), NHS England
Gloria Rose Marie Achá, Lawyer, Andean Action
Graeme Henderson, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Bristol
Graham Smyth, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Gregg Chip, Managing Director, Drug Policy Australia
Hanna Head, SSDP
Hannah Goodwin-Sharman, Student Administrator, University of Bristol
Henry Chuks, Public Health Manager, Youthrise Nigeria
Huw Rowles, Substance Misuse Worker, CAVDAS
Jamie Bridge, International Drug Policy Consortium
Jamie Ross Breen, Chemist
Jane Slater, Manager, Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control
Jane Wilson, NHS
Janet Ruth Mayor, Practice Lead for Alcohol and other Drugs
Janine Day, Operations Director, Early Break
Jason Kew, Innovative Practitioner, The Centre for Justice Innovation
Jason Reed, Executive Director, LEAP UK
Jean Clot, Project Manager, GREA
Jennifer Sinclair, Pharmacist
Jeremy Luke Castle BSc (Hons), MSc Med Chem, R.N. Dip H.E., Dip Hyp, Clinical Nurse Specialist (HIV & Palliative Care), NMC, RCN, NHS
Jessica Lever
John Duncan Middleton, Freelance Consultant in Public Health
John Fox, Substance Use Worker, The Hepatitis C Trust
John Mooney FFPH, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Grampian
Joseph Hancock, Research Communications Officer, University of Glasgow
Joy Lewis, Barrister, 25 Bedford Row - Criminal Barristers
Juan Fernández Ochoa
Judy Crombie
Julie Hunt
Juliet Shepherd, Pharmacist, College of Mental Health Pharmacy
Jun Pang, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Liberty
Kate Halliday, Addictions Professionals
Katie Evans, Mental Health Pharmacist, National Health Service
Kerry Littleford, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Faculty of Public Health
Kym Barlow, NHS
Lana Adamou, Lawyer, Liberty
Laura Bennett, Senior Research Associate
Leila Reid, Director of Corporate Services, The Hepatitis C Trust
Lidia Stoica
Liz McCoy, Trust-wide Lead for Addictions, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Madeleine Proctor, Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist, NHS
Madeline Petrillo, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich
Mahmoud El-Hiti, Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist
Maria Goretti, IDPC and West Africa Drug Policy Network-Ghana chapter
Maria Smith
Marie Nougier, International Drug Policy Consortium
Marina Kiprova
Mark Harris
Mark Pryke, SUI Lead, Change Grow Live
Martha Spurrier, Director, Liberty
Martin Blakebrough, CEO, Kaleidoscope
Martin Drewry, CEO, Health Poverty Action
Martin Powell, Head of Partnerships, Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Megan Drysdale, Assistant Psychologist
Michael Hunter, Drug and Alcohol Counsellor
Mike Ashton, Editor, Drug and Alcohol Findings
Miss Harriet Wilkins
Miss Min Na Eii, Pharmacist, Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
Mr Blaine Stothard, Co-Editor 2014 - 2021, Drugs and Alcohol Today
Mr Prince Bull-Luseni, Executive Director, West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN)
Mr Undule Mwakasungula, Consultant, Drug Policy and Harm Reduction Platform-Malawi
Ms Felicity Young, Consultant Nurse in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Solent NHS Trust
Mx Kasparas Vasiliauskas, Harm Reduction Worker & Peer Educator, Youth Rise
Mx Kat Petrilli, Phd Student, University of Bath
Natalie Travis, National Head of Service – Public Health & Substance Misuse, Turning Point
Naomi Miall, Public Health Researcher, University of Glasgow Social and Public Health Sciences Uni
Niamh Eastwood, Executive Director, Release
Nicholas John Wilson
Nick Glynn, Senior Program Officer, OSF
Ollie Persey, Barrister
Patrick Hargreaves
Peter Furlong, National Harm Reduction Lead (CGL), Change Grow Live
Peter Krykant, Project Lead, Cranstoun
Peter Reynolds, President, CLEAR Cannabis Law Reform
Phillipa Gelland, Senior Legal Advisor, Release
Prof Adam Winstock, Director, Global Drug Survey
Prof Aisha K. Gill Ph.D. CBE, Professor of Criminology, University of Bristol School for Policy Studies
Prof Al Story, Consultant Public Health, UCLH and UCL
Prof Andrew Haywood, University College London, Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health, UCL
Prof Barry John Everitt FRS, Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Prof Charlie Lloyd, University of York
Prof Cicely Marston, Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Prof Daniel Wight, Programme Leader, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Prof David Bewley-Taylor, Swansea University
Prof David Nutt, Professor of Psychiatry, Imperial College
Prof David T. Sweanor, Head of Advisory Board, Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa
Prof Joanne Csete, Associate Professor, Columbia Univ. Mailman School of Public Health
Prof John Child, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Birmingham
Prof John Coggon, Professor of Law
Prof Julia Buxton, Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester
Prof Karen Duke, Professor in Criminology, Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Middlesex University
Prof Katy Holloway, Professor of Criminology, Director of the Substance Use Research Group, University of South Wales
Prof Kristian Lasslett, Professor of Criminology, Ulster University
Prof Laurence Moore, Director, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow University
Prof Lindsay Forbes, Professor of Public Health, University of Kent
Prof Liz Aston, Professor of Criminology and Director of SIPR, The Scottish Institute for Policing Research, Napier University
Prof Lucy Platt, Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, London School of Hygiend and Tropical Medicine
Prof Lynne Dawkins, University Lecturer and Researcher, London South Bank University
Prof Margaret Malloch, Professor of Criminology, University of Stirling
Prof Nadine Dougall, Co-Director, Scottish Centre for Policing and Public Health, Napier University
Prof Nancy D. Campbell, Graduate Programme Director, Alcohol and Drug History Society
Prof Pablo Cortes, Law Professor, University of Leicester
Prof Pat Hudson, Emeritus Professor of History
Prof Pat O’Hare
Prof Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University
Prof Rob Ralphs, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, Co-Director of the Substance Use and Associated Behaviours (SUAB) Research Group., Manchester Metropolitan University
Prof Ross Coomber, Professor of Criminology & Sociology, University of Liverpool
Prof Roy Robertson, Academic and Clinician, University of Edinburgh and NHS
Prof Sue Atkinson
Prof Tessa Parkes, Professor of Substance Use and Inclusion Health, University of Stirling
Prof Valerie Curran, Emeritus Professor of Psychopharmacology, UCL
Prof John Middleton, Independent Public Health Consultant
Prof Stephen Roger Bazire MBE, Honorary Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia
Rachel Allbless
Rebeca Calzada, Project Leader, Youth Rise
Rebeca Marques Rocha, Central European University
Rebecca Hand
Rebecca Marriott
Rebekah Tarren, Social Care
Richard Hanford
Richard Marriott
Rob Barker, Campaigns and Comms Lead, Barod
Romain Bach, Co-Secretary General, GREA
Roxana Pollack, Research Assistant, Glasgow University
Russell Brooks, Senior Director
Ryan Morgan, Mental Health Pharmacist, College of Mental Health Pharmacists
Sadie Base, Legal Adviser, Release
Sally A Amor, Public Health Consultant, NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Sally Newman, University of Bristol
Sara Berenice Monsalvo Basaldua, Youth R.I.S.E
Sarah Jane Harris, Pharmacist
Sarah Peat, Emerging Trends Training Coordinator, Crew2000
Sarah Thornton, Consultant Anaesthetist, Bolton Hospital
Sarah Vaile, Founder & Director, Recovery Cymru
Sean Hughes, Nurse, CGL
Serena Luchenski, BSc MSc FFPH, Clinical Academic in Public Health, University College London
Shannon Kennedy, MPH, DFPH, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Yorkshire & Humber School of Public Health
Shannon Murray, Researcher, University of South Wales
Sheryl Nwosu, Lawyer (Barrister), 25 Bedford Row - Criminal Barristers
Shiva Fouladi-Nashta, Learning Disability Community Liaison Pharmacist, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Simon Williams, Head of Learning, Mainline
Sorcha Ryan, Bristol Drugs Project
Stephanie Dray
Stephen Cutter, Head of Legal Services, Release
Steve Glazzard
Sue Doherty, Nurse Consultant Substance Misuse, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Tayyiba Bajwa, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
Tess Woolfenden, Senior Policy and Research Officer
Theocharis Kromydas, Research Associate, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Thomas Hollick, Policy & Public Affairs Coordinator, The Wallich
Tim Colbourne
Tom Hancock
Tom Jenkins, PhD researcher
Tom Marshall, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Birmingham
Tomas Alberto Chang Pico
Tracy Welsh
Vanessa Castro
Vicki Beere, CEO, Project 6
Wakana Fujisawa
Wayne Gault, Lead Officer, Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership
Will Durrands, Barrister, 25 Bedford Row - Criminal Barristers
Will Pearson, GP in Inclusion Health
Yasmin Appleby, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Find and Treat Team
Yeng Yeng Shang, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Faculty of Public Health
Zara Snapp, Director, Instituto RIA AC
Zehra Tahtakilic, Substance misuse worker, NHS