Nov
2
Nuttgate
It’s tempting to think that the ACMD is just a scientific body which weighs up just the health-related issues of drug abuse.
Except it isn’t. While politicians may talk about the “wider issues”, those issues are an integral part of the ACMD’s remit and are taken into account when it produces its recommendations.
The members of the Council, up until a few days ago, were:
- Professor David Nutt (Chairman): Psychiatrist and pharmacologist University of Bristol
- Dr Dima Abdulrahim: Research Briefings Manager - National Treatment Agency
- Lord Victor Adebowale: Chief Executive of Turning Point.
- Mr Martin Barnes: Chief Executive of Drugscope
- Dr Margaret Birtwistle: Specialist GP, Senior Tutor - Education and Training Unit, St George’s Hospital & Forensic Medicine Examiner
- Simon Bray: Commander in the Metropolitan Police, overseeing 10 London boroughs
- Dr Simon Campbell CBE FRS: Scientific Consultant
- Eric Carlin: Former Chief Executive of Mentor UK, Chair of the English Drug Education Forum
- Ms Carmel Clancy: Principal Lecturer in Mental Health and Addictions, Middlesex University
- Professor Ilana Crome: Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, Keele University Medical School, Harplands Hospital
- Ms Robyn Doran: Registered Mental Health Nurse & Service Director, Substance Misuse CNWL Mental Health Trust
- Mr Patrick Hargreaves: School inspector, the Drugs & Alcohol Advisor for Durham County Council and a regional PSHEE advisor for the DCSF
- Ms Caroline Healy: Advisor working with the Department of Health
- Matthew Hickman: Reader in Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
- Professor Leslie Iversen: Retired Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- Dr Les King: Part-time advisor to the Department of Health
- David Liddell: Director of the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF)
- Dr John Marsden: Research Psychologist, Institute of Psychiatry
- Mr Peter Martin: Independent Consultant in Substance Misuse
- Dr Fiona Measham: Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
- Dr Anita Nolan: Consultant, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Oral Medicine, Dundee Dental Hospital, NHS Tayside
- Mr Trevor Pearce: Executive Director. Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
- District Judge Justin Philips: Appointed to the Bench in 1989 after 19 years as a criminal barrister
- Richard Phillips
- Dr Ian Ragan: Director of CIR Consultancy Ltd providing consultancy services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries
- Mr Howard Roberts: Deputy Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire Police
- Dr Mary Rowlands: Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Dr Polly Taylor: Freelance Consultant in Veterinary Anaesthesia
- Ms Monique Tomlinson: Freelance consultant in substance misuse
- Marion Walker FRPharmS: Clinical Director - substance misuse service - Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Team Pharmacist - National Treatment Agency, Secretary of PharMAG (Pharmacy Misuse Advisory Group)
- Mr Arthur Wing: Assistant Chief Officer, Sussex Probation Area
Just so you know.
