David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. [6] . He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. [7] .

David Nutt is currently the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences.

Jan 6, 2020 · It is a shame that 10 years after Professor Nutt’s sacking we cannot say that there’s been progress towards greater use of evidence in informing British drug policy.

Professor David Nutt is the Edmund J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Centre for Academic Psychiatry, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, at Imperial College London.

Electronic address: [email protected]. The past 50 years have seen remarkable advances in the science of medicine. The pharmacological treatments of disorders such as hypertension, immune disorders, and cancer are fundamentally different from those used in the 1970s, and are now more often based on disorder-specific pathologies.

Proper assessment of the harms caused by the misuse of drugs can inform policy makers in health, policing, and social care. We aimed to apply multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) modelling to a range of drug harms in the UK.

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Evidence-based pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder: a revision of the 2005 guidelines from the … DS Baldwin, IM...

David J Nutt The effect of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on seizure duration during a course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was evaluated in a retrospective study.

May 31, 2012 · David J. Nutt explains drugs and drug policies without the ubiquitous “morality-based” arguments. He lists the risks, harms, and advantages of recreational drug use; and ranks legal and illegal drugs considering a series of relevant factors.