{"id":3973,"date":"2018-05-10T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:39","slug":"the-biggest-consumers-of-illicit-drugs-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/05\/10\/the-biggest-consumers-of-illicit-drugs-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest consumers of illicit drugs in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Stevens, Professor in Criminal Justice, says the Global Drug Survey 2018 \u2013 showing the UK only behind Finland and Norway for illicit dark web drug buying \u2013\u00a0highlights the need for a review of policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/stevens-alex.html\">Alex Stevens\u00a0<\/a>is a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/advisory-council-on-the-misuse-of-drugs\">UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and President of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issdp.org\/\">International Society of the Study of Drug Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read his comments in full on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/17894\/expert-comment-uk-dark-web-drug-purchases-highlight-unrealistic-government-policy-says-criminologist\">University&#8217;s News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Stevens, Professor in Criminal Justice, says the Global Drug Survey 2018 \u2013 showing the UK only behind Finland and Norway for illicit dark web &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/05\/10\/the-biggest-consumers-of-illicit-drugs-in-europe\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,10482,124,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}