Although Wolfram is a bit twitchy it's still in its early stages of development. It did come up with some interesting information that has got me thinking about HepB

In the fourth episode of our podcast Allison and I talk about how we each got into harm reduction work. Although neither of us came into drugs work via what can be called normal routes this show does have some tips for people wanting to get into drugs work.

Before you listen to this show though I will give a warning...

Transform Drug Policy Foundation have the leaked World Health Organization (WHO) report on cocaine that Ben Goldacre mentioned (see previous article).

Their blog post is entitled 'The WHO cocaine report that the US didn't want you to see' which of course gives you some idea as to its findings. As always the Transform blog makes for interesting reading.

The Guardian newspapers Ben Goldacre has written a fantastic article about drug use and Governments ability to ignore the advice it receives (especially with reference to recent ACMD reports).

When the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs Act looked at the evidence on the reclassification of cannabis, they were simply ignored. When Professor David Nutt, the new head of the advisory council, wrote a scientific paper on the relatively modest risks of MDMA, he was personally attacked by the Home Secretary.

Ben is the author of the a great book called Bad Science, which exposes some of the poor thinking we let people get away with. I especially recommend the chapter on the wrinkled fecal obsessed fool Gillian Mckeith. Coincidently I bought the book just this week (at the time of writing this it's available on Amazon for only £3.60! Buy a copy).

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