Policy

Helpful links to information about drugs policy.

UK government strategy

Drugs Strategy

2003 Strategy Unit report on drugs, Part 1: Understanding the Issues

Future trends

Foresight Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs

Transform: A timeline for drugs policy from 1800 to the present day, with predictions on the progress of legal reform

Previous reports

Drugs and the Law: report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (the Runciman Report), 1999

Home Affairs Committee, The Government's Drugs Policy: is it working? 2002

Audit Commission, Drug misuse: reducing the local impact, 2004

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, Assessing drug policy principles and practice, 2004

Legalisation

Economist, 'Stumbling in the dark'

Transform, Effective drug policy: why journey's end is legalisation

Transform, After the war on drugs: options for control, 2004

Harm reduction

UK Harm Reduction Alliance statement on the meaning of 'harm reduction'

Neil Hunt, A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use, 2003

UK Harm Reduction Alliance, Abstinence approaches to drugs education

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