Legalise Drugs and Let Doctors Call the Shots, Says British Medical Journal
Drugs are a public health issue, and should be legalised with Doctors at the heart of the debate according to the British Medical Journal.
In a series of articles published today, the BMJ argue that ‘the war on drugs has failed,’ and claim that prohibitive drug laws have done nothing to reduce addiction or organised crime.
The BMJ’s editorial highlights a number of areas where ‘the war on drugs’ has actually caused public health problems, as opposed to remedying them:
Prohibition and stigma encourage less safe drug consumption and push people away from health services. Sharing of injection equipment has led to huge epidemics of bloodborne infection, including HIV and hepatitis C. And just one in every six of the 29 million people worldwide with a drug use disorder received treatment in 2014.
The ideological goal of a “drug-free world” encourages ideologically driven medical practice. For example, patients in Crimea died after the
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