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Release is the UK centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law – providing free and confidential specialist advice to the public and professionals. Release campaigns for changes to UK drug policy.
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Release Some MPs have tabled a motion in parliament calling for drug policy to be based on evidence. see if your MP has signed it, and if not, email him now and ask that he does.

Source: edmi.parliament.uk
United Kingdom Parliament website homepage
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Release We have launched a blog - a weekly comment on the ever-developing culture of drug use. What is it called? Release on Drugs, of course.

Source: releaseondrugs.blogspot.com
The affair of David Nutt’s sacking has prompted widespread debate. The injustice of the dismissal is, therefore, balanced by the opportunities it has provided to push the boundaries of the conversation ...
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just to play devil's advocate for a bit...do we want Prof Nutt reinstated? maybe if more ACMD council members resign instead, and the whole thing becomes unworkable, it will be even more embarrassing for Gvt, and they will be forced to behave differently? just a thought...
November 5 at 6:51am
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Release considering the support for David Nutt, we think our facebook fans should be doubling in size by now...get your friends to join so that we can show the government the strength of feeling out there about this!

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Release 31 October 2009

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Release ..before he was sacked. 29 October 2009

Jemma Wayne
Jemma Wayne
very proud of you clauds x
November 2 at 5:01am
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Release BBC News interview, before the government sacked Professor Nutt.

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Release can't believe Prof Nutt has been sacked. what a disgrace. join this group to show your support for an evidence based drug policy

Professor David Nutt, the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has been sacked. The council is an independent body that is supposed to advise the government on the application of the m...
Greg
Greg
quote from Chris Huhne:

“The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is simply not independent if its chair can be sacked for telling the Government what it does not want to hear.

“Ministers have constantly ignored the advice of experts when it comes to drug policies and pressed ahead with their own prejudices.... Read More

“If ministers care so little for independent scientific advice, they should save public money by sacking the entire group of experts and instead appoint a committee of tabloid editors.”
November 2 at 3:00pm
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Release has just been on BBC radio 5 live and Sky News radio supporting Prof Nutt's latest paper on drugs...bound to be repeated throughout the day, so listen in!

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Release first wave of sales of deck of cards are underway - have you ordered yours yet?

Source: www.release.org.uk
Nice People Take Drugs - Release : Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
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Release They're finally here! The eagerly awaited and very cool nice people take drugs deck of cards can now be yours for just £5. Even if you know nothing/don't care about politics, you'll definitely recognise some of the faces on these cards...just look who we decided HAD to be the Joker...

Source: www.release.org.uk
Nice People Take Drugs - Release : Drugs, The Law & Human Rights
Becki
Becki
the shirt's awesome i'll wear in in AB at DPA.... see you soon.
October 23 at 9:10am
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Release Interview with World Radio Switzerland about heroin prescribing - the Swiss have been doing it for years, when will the UK catch on?

Source: fsn.typepad.com
I've just filed a package for World Radio Switzerland on the recently published preliminary findings of a UK trial which has seen heroin addicts given the drug in an attempt to cut crime and help them deal with their addiction. ...
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Release c'mon you Release facebook fans, you must have plenty of friends who are also a fan of the work we do...can you help us to reach 2000 fans by next week?

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Release An excellent article in The Times that captures very well the widespread use of drugs - and the need to address recreational drug use and dependent drug use in different ways

Source: women.timesonline.co.uk
It’s Friday midnight and, in the corner of a vast Manchester nightclub, I’m having an earnest discussion with Becky, a sensible, homely-looking woman in her mid-30s, who has two lines of cocaine and several Ecstasy tablets coursing around her bloodstream.
David Finch
David Finch
A good article but ......er...wtf?

"85 per cent of clubbers had tried Ecstasy at least once
40 per cent had tried MDMA at least once"
October 19 at 1:55pm
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Release A great article by our friends and colleagues at TalkingDrugs.org summarises the story well. Take Action today.

Source: www.talkingdrugs.org
A 53 year old father of five from North London may be executed by Chinese authorities any day now as his appeal against drug smuggling charges was rejected. Akmal Shaikh who had run a successful taxi company ...
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Release China to go ahead with execution of mentally ill Briton

Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Family appeal to Beijing for clemency in heroin possession case
Neil Vaughan
Neil Vaughan
this should not happen, our government should do more !!
October 14 at 1:30pm
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Please email Foreign Secretary David Miliband NOW asking him to intervene on Akmal Shaikh's behalf; here is the address you can use:
msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk
October 15 at 6:57am