Nick Davies looks at the government's attempt to deal with the most prolific of offenders - the drug users who commit an estimated 7.5 million crimes a year
The Nightcrawlers review – are the Filipino authorities executing drug addicts?
This gripping documentary follows the brave photographers capturing the carnage triggered by President Duterte’s policy of executing supposed dealers and users
The spice epidemic in UK prisons is putting nurses at risk
Brian Morton
Nurses and healthcare workers are reporting health problems from exposure to the psychoactive drugs so common in UK prisons, says Brian Morton, national officer at the Royal College of Nursing
In 2009 DrugScope published 'Drug Treatment at the Crossroads', based on consultations with our members and stakeholders across Britain. A clear message was that people accessing local drug and alcohol services often have troubled histories and multiple needs. They may depend on drugs or alcohol to suppress painful experiences from their past (such as experience of abuse or trauma) or to cope with a bleak and difficult present (for example, if they are homeless or involved in sex work). Drug or alcohol problems will tend to exacerbate not alleviate these problems, and bring others too
Continuing our major series on the criminal justice system, Nick Davies, in the first of three articles on the courts, investigates the hidden life of a single offender, and uncovers malnutrition, daily thefts to feed drug addiction - and the impotence of punishment.
More than 200 heroin addicts are facing disaster after officials at the Home Office made formal complaints against doctors at a leading private drugs clinics.
