Resources
This page contains links to a small selection of resources - documents or websites - that the project team has found useful or interesting and that are freely available online. The literature on drugs is enormous; more comprehensive as well as more specialised bibliographies are to be found on the websites of organisations such as drugs.gov.uk, Drugscope, Substance Misuse.net, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, National Treatment Agency,
Neither the individual documents here, nor the particular selection, should be taken as representing the views of the RSA Drugs Commission.
The documents are arranged under the following headings:
Information
The characteristics of individual drugs, the prevalence of their use (age, gender, ethnicity, geographical distribution etc), current and future trends in drug use etc.
Policy
UK strategy, prohibition, legalisation, decriminalisation, harm reduction, previous reports, etc.
International
UN conventions, EU policy, US policy, etc.
Education and prevention
School programmes, random drug-testing in schools, sniffer dogs, testing in the workplace, etc.
Treatment
Family therapy, heroin prescription, injecting rooms, integrated treatment, etc.
Criminal justice
DTTOs, the Drug Intervention Programme, ACPO guidelines, treatment in prison, assets recovery, partnership working, etc.
Communities
Neighbourhood renewal, community action, user involvement, etc.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous information on illegal drugs.
