Day 164

Aka Friday 14 July 2017

The new Drug Strategy and the 2017 update to the Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management (aka the Orange Book) were published today. Given that I’d been involved with both (in a minor role) when I worked at the Department of Health it felt a little weird to finally see them out in the wild and it hear the media’s comments. When the Strategy was discussed, and criticised, on The Wright Stuff I was very tempted to call in and defend it (or at least my friends who had worked on it)., but thought best not too, in case a said something I shouldn’t.

Away from serious stuff I brought the new Moon Diagrams album, Lifetime Of Love, and the vinyl version of 20th anniversary Catskills compilation, which has a special secret track on it, arrived:

I also read Dark Days: The Casting:

...which like Dark Days: The Forge, doesn’t feel like a complete story, rather it feels like a chapter from a longer story (which you can argue is its purpose, to get you to buy the rest of the mini-series, but in the past they used to try to include a complete story along with the plot points/elements leading into future issues) or as I’ve said before it’s mostly crust and little pie filling. Worse, it also doesn’t feel like much happens and what little does happen is pretty similar to what happens in The Forge. I’m left unsure whether l should continue buying the individual issues or if I should just follow what happens via its wiki page and articles on Bleeding Cool.