Niamh Eastwood

Niamh Eastwood is Executive Director of Release and co-author of 'The Numbers in Black and White: Ethnic Disparities in the Policing and Prosecution of Drug Offences in England and Wales'.

Decriminalising drugs is not just talk – meet the countries actually experimenting with it

Faced with a mountain of human rights abuses caused by criminalising people who use drugs, some states are turning their backs on punitive approaches. But where can they turn to? Español

By Niamh Eastwood and Edward Fox

/ 15 Mar 2016

The numbers in black and white: racism in the policing of drugs

Each year the UK police are disproportionately stopping and searching large numbers of Black and Asian people for drug possession, amounting to mass police interference in everyday life. Is an answer decriminalising drug possession?

By Niamh Eastwood

/ 10 Dec 2013