Dealing With Drugs

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the strategic and policy responses to illicit drug use in the Britain sine the mid-1980s. It maps and discusses the ways in which the UK government has aimed to ensure a more consistent framework for the delivery of drugs services and inter [...]
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This book presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the strategic and policy responses to illicit drug use in the Britain sine the mid-1980s. It maps and discusses the ways in which the UK government has aimed to ensure a more consistent framework for the delivery of drugs services and interventions. In addition, the book explores a range of political, economic, social and global factors that have provided the context for the development and implementation of a series of over-arching policy measures in the last two decades. This volume seeks to examine how the Criminal Justice System has become a significant (but not exclusive) framework for the design, delivery and funding of drug services and interventions. Although other approaches remain important to understanding the scope and range of responses to substance misuse - such as education, prevention strategies and harm minimisation, particularly in relation to blood-borne viruses such as Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDs - this text e