She worked for the Social Services in North London and for the Mental Health Foundation in the 1980s.

She was chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee for The Central and North West London NHS Trust[1] from 2004 to 2008.

[6] On 16 June 2006, she was made a life peer as Baroness Meacher of Spitalfields, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,[7] and sits as a crossbencher.

An interview between Meacher and Italian station Radio Radicale about the trip and forthcoming events was conducted on 26 June 2013.

[14] On 17 October 2013, she led a debate in the House of Lords on UK drugs policy.