Sport’s Biggest Drug Scandals Jack Walton discusses current and past drug scandals in sport Two weeks ago jockey Philip Prince was banned from horse racing for 6 months after a drugs test, taken at November’s Wolverhampton Races, showed he was 56 times over the threshold for cocaine. Despite having many illustrious members – Diego Maradona, […]
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Book Review – ‘Martha’ by Walker Zupp
Rhian Hutchings reviews ‘Martha’, the debut novel of Exeter-alumni, Walker Zupp.
Cocaine Candidates
Emma Hussain explains the need for a progressive drug policy in light of the revelations about Tory leadership contenders’ drug use.
Buckingham University asks students to sign drug pledge
Buckingham University recently announced that they are to begin asking incoming students to sign a contract pledging against taking drugs on campus. The university’s vice-chancellor, Sir Anthony Seldon, announced the plans in a column in the Daily Mail, with the aim of becoming Britain’s first ‘drug-free’ campus. Seldon told The Daily Mail that it is […]
Ketamine Used in Alcoholism Treatment Trial
A University of Exeter psychology trial for the treatment of alcoholism has attracted attention for its unconventional methods. The Ketamine for Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse (KARE) trial employs the use of Ketamine, a sedative and part-time recreational drug, alongside psychological therapy in order to assist with people suffering from alcoholism. KARE aims to find out […]
Marijuana and cancer
Marijuana has long been the subject of debate, pro-legalisation campaigners argue that marijuana can cure a wide variety of diseases (as a quick google search will show) from various Psychoses to Autism, Alzheimer’s, or perhaps most worryingly Cancer. For many of these stories there is no strong evidence of any benefit, in fact, marijuana may […]
“This is the greatest social justice issue of our time” – An interview with ex-undercover police officer Neil Woods
A CRACK deal isn’t the beginning of your typical career. But for Neil Woods, who worked for 14 years as an undercover police officer in the drugs squad, scoring class A substances from dealers came to define a successful career. “I finally found something in the police I was pretty good at” he explains. And […]
Rhetoric: Drugs
Recreational use of illegal drugs is a controversial social topic. Many of us will know users, those in favour of legalisation, those against it, people with cautionary tales, and so on. In the public policy realm however, the topic of recreational drug use is painted with a monochrome brush, lacking in nuance. This is because […]
You booze, you lose- Has Britain’s drinking culture gone too far?
“I learned it in England where indeed they are most potent in potting.” These words uttered in Othello convey the long and fabled relationship that we in this country have with alcohol. But even in his Elizabethan stupor, William Shakespeare couldn’t have anticipated the extent of Britain’s drinking culture today. This is something most freshers […]
Resistance Is Futile!!!
You hear stories about it in the news weekly, but just what is antibiotic resistance, and is the future of antibiotic era of healthcare as vulnerable as we are lead to believe? Antibiotic resistance is arguably one of the biggest global problems facing humans today. Without a way to defend ourselves against diseases, we hardly […]