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Strategy to reduce drug use has failed to deliver promised innovations, say MPs

A 10 year government strategy intended to reduce use of illegal drugs, drug related deaths, and crime by ushering in a new public health approach to drug services has so far failed to deliver, MPs have reported. Despite £903m to fund the strategy for 2022-25,1 there has been no reduction in the “tragic deaths and harms caused by illegal drug use, a desperate blight on our whole society,” said the chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier, after an inquiry into progress so far.2 Sh...
United Kingdom Jane Feinmann Meg Hillier Carol Black Newnham College Public Accounts Committee
Source: bmj.com

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Is it possible to reduce population levels of illegal drugs use?

Policy makers must shed outdated thinking and deploy evidence based interventions The 2021 UK drug strategy, From Harm to Hope , presented an ambitious programme that sought to tackle more than a decade of increases in drug related harm.1 The National Audit Office’s (NAO) recent value for money report identified mixed progress towards the strategy’s objectives,2 with greater numbers of drug workers entering the sector but concerns about local implementation of some actions, the ability of go...
United Kingdom Harry Sumnall National Audit Office From Harm
Source: bmj.com

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