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UK: The drugs experts who are standing down

Mary Bowers

The Times

Monday 02 Nov 2009

Les King is considered one of the foremost experts on the synthetic, cannabis-like drug Spice. He is senior chemist on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and a part-time adviser to the Department of Health. He was expected to finish his term in December 2010. He has also advised the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, which among other roles allowed him to provide advice to new member states on drug legislation.

After gaining a doctorate from Loughborough University, Dr King spent eight years in the pharmaceutical industry before joining the Forensic Science Service, where he became head of the Drugs Intelligence Unit. Here, he worked on the testing of forensic samples for drug and alcohol traces in the case of fatal poisonings or offences under the Road Traffic Act and Misuse of Drugs Act. In 2003 he wrote a book on the latter, which included studies of “designer drugs”.

Dr King has authored andor co-authored over 80 papers on drugs and their misuse, and earlier this year published a second book entitled Forensic Chemistry of Substance Misuse: A Guide to Drug Control.

Marion Walker was appointed to the National Drugs Advisory Council Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on January 1 2008 and was expected to finish her term on December 31 2010.

She is chief pharmacist and chemical director at the Substance Misuse Service at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and clinical team pharmacist at the National Treatment Agency.

She also has roles at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Pharmacy Misuse Advisory Group.

Mrs Walker is a member of the substance misuse executive committee and tutor at the Royal College of General Practitioners.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6898805.ece

 

 

 

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