Why is alcohol such an exception? With Prof David Nutt

Taken from his 2021 Street Drugs Session on Alcohol, in this clip Prof David Nutt runs through the historical context of alcohol in the UK - and how it came to be treated so differently to other substances.
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Price kept up in Scotland and it has reduced consumption but has it increased other drug use ?

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There's a really well referenced response to this concern here (below). Without detracting from the urgency of the opioid crisis that Scotland is in the grips of, deaths from overdose started increasing sharply from 2014, whilst Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) was only introduced in 2018. This is not a major driver for the opioid crisis, which needs a separate, urgent response. www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/resources/briefing-on-mup-and-drug-use-aug-22-.pdf