Article: Professor David Nutt was the Government's top drugs adviser for 18 months before being sacked last Friday.

Article: Where are the one-handed scientists? The sacking of the ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... on account of the three years' careful work that producing it had taken. Second, the Home Secretary sacked Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for criticising the Government's drugs policy. The ...

Article: Ecstasy is no riskier than riding a horse; David ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Matthew Hickley THE chief drugs adviser to the Government is facing calls to resign after claiming ... Ecstasy is no more risky than riding a horse. Professor David Nutt made the astonishing comparison in an article in a medical ...

Article: Cross Words: What the doctor ordered? Head to head: A pill to ...
The Independent - London;  November 28, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... me, `Thank God, you've finally given me something that works and I can go and live a normal life again.'" Professor David Nutt is head of Clinical Medicine at Bristol University Anti-lifestyle-drugs "We live in a world where one-tenth of the ...

Article: Judge makes veiled attack on sacked drugs ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 12, 2009 ;     596 words ... ... pistol in public while suffering druginduced paranoia. In a veiled criticism of Professor David Nutt, the Government's sacked chief drugs adviser, Judge Brian Lewis said it was clear Giovanni Mercuri's cannabis use was to blame for his ...

Article: New rules after sacking of drugs adviser
The Independent - London;  December 16, 2009 ;     315 words ... ... Guidelines designed to heal the wounds inflicted by the controversial sacking of Professor David Nutt, the Government's former chief drugs adviser, were announced yesterday. The "principles" reinforce the independence of experts advising ...

Article: Sacked drugs adviser 'nutty' HEARTBROKEN MUM SLAMS ...
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  November 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... after taking ecstasy last night branded a sacked senior drugs adviser "irresponsible". Pauline Sumner, whose daughter ... in a Birmingham nightclub, hit out after Professor David Nutt claimed ecstasy was no more dangerous than horse riding ...

Article: Sacked drugs adviser should have kept quiet say ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... backed the sacking of David Nutt last night as it emerged ... the Government's top drugs adviser for 18 months before ... Home Secretary denied David Nutt freedom of expression ... uk CAPTION(S): David Nutt: Attacked as 'naive ...