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Regulating Right, Repairing Wrongs: Exploring Equity and Social Justice Initiatives within UK Cannabis Reform
This report proposes 14 guiding social equity principles to be integrated into the UK’s future legally regulated cannabis market. This paper builds on Release’s national research on the…
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Drugs in the Time of COVID: Interim Report
Since the beginning of the first national coronavirus lockdown, Release has operated a public, online survey designed to monitor how people are buying their drugs. The…
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Saving Lives: Best practice guidance on the provision of naloxone
Naloxone is used to treat respiratory depression caused by opioids. Opioids produce their effects by acting on opioid receptors in the brain and nervous system. Naloxone…
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Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Take-Home Naloxone in England 2017/18
This report updates Release’s previous reporting on ‘Take-home Naloxone in England: 2016/17’ and presents novel findings on take-home naloxone provision in custodial settings, such as in…
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The Colour of Injustice: ‘Race’, drugs and law enforcement in England and Wales
The unequal enforcement of drug laws is a source of profound racial injustice. The Numbers in Black and White, published in 2013 by Release & LSE,…
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Taking the Hit: Student Drug Use and How Institutions Respond
A report, by Release and the National Union of Students (NUS), on student drug use and drug policies in UK higher education. The report includes the…
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A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe
This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has since been…
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Una Revolución Silenciosa: políticas en práctica para la descriminalización de las drogas en todo el mundo
Una Revolución Silenciosa: políticas en práctica para la descriminalización de las drogas en todo el mundo” [A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in Practice Across the…
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The Numbers in Black And White: Ethnic Disparities In The Policing And Prosecution Of Drug Offences In England And Wales
This report demonstrates that the policing and prosecutions of drug possession offences in England and Wales is unduly focussed on black and minority communities. This report…
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