If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ. You may have to register. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Clinical Psychedelic Research and Medicine. Sex, Love and Relationships. Life Advice and Visual Arts. North America and South America.

This blog is designed as an interactive space for those interested in a critical sociology of drugs. As someone with a background in both sociology and public health policy, I am looking for critical perspectives on drug use and how we respond to it. I am especially interested in bringing together medical sociology and the sociology of the body to better understand the lived experiences of drug users. Friday, December 28, 2012.

Is it right that our youth have an incredibly dangerous, toxic and socially problematic drug as their only recreational option? If there is a safer option why would we ignore and outlaw it or, even worse, demonise it? Alcohol vs. Buy Marijuana is Safer here.

So you want to build a Smart Phone Harm Reduction App.

See also Liberating the NHS My Arse. Thursday, 24 March 2011. On strike today to protest changes to our pensions and cuts in general. The background to the dispute is reported by BBC News here. Wednesday, 23 March 2011. Role of Honour - the MPs who opposed UK attacking Libya.