Transcript Shake, rattle and roll: Ten years of a government drug

The long, strange trip
Ten years of a drug strategy
Harry Shapiro
DrugScope
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the misuse of drugs
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background on drugs issues
• Secretariat of Parliamentary All Party Group on
Drug Misuse
• Policy and information advice to government
1966
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Amount of heroin seized = nil
Number of known heroin users = 1349
No drug strategy
No treatment system
No drug squads
2006
• Amount of heroin seized = 2.1 metric tons
(2004)
• Number of heroin users = 300,000 plus
AND…..
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SMAS; DAT; DRG; CJIP; DIP;CARAT
QUADS; NOMS; DANOS; DPAS; NTA
CDCU; UKADCU; MOCAM; DTTO; DRR
EATA; LDPF; ACMD; NTORS; NDTMS
SOCA; NCIS; FDAP; LDAN; NICE; PCT
DAO; IDTMS; YOT; LSP; LAA…..
The tipping point
1979
The Road to Strategic Thinking
• 1982 ACMD report ‘Treatment and
Rehabilitation’
• 1985 Home Office ‘Tackling Drug Misuse’
• 1990 UK Action on Drug Abuse: The
Government’s Strategy
• 1993 ‘Across the Divide’……
The Future
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What will the new strategy look like?
Will there be a new strategy?
Mainstreaming?
Local devolution?
Funding?
Be part of the change
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