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Speakers:
Prof David Nutt, Chair, ACMD Technical Committee
Prof Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council
Prof Leslie Iversen FRS, Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University
A study published in the Lancet suggested a new method of classifying drugs based which would rate alcohol and tobacco as more harmful than many illegal drugs. The Science Media Centre invited the authors of this paper to speak to journalists about their research.