Home Secretary David Blunkett talks exclusively to Druglink about the revamped ‘tough love’ drug strategy – harm reduction on the ascendant and more people ‘sentenced’ to treatment Blunkett’s forward vision for drugs (PDF)
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Druglink article 2003 – Home rule by Harry Shapiro
With the Home Office in the driving seat of UK drug policy, the updated drug strategy firmly anchors drugs as a law and order issue. Home rule (PDF)
Druglink interview 2012 – Duncan Selbie by Harry Shapiro
If it isn’t already, the name Duncan Selbie is set to become very familiar to those of us working in the drug and alcohol sector. The Chief Executive of Public Health England spoke to Harry Shapiro about his plans. Interview – Duncan Selbie…
Druglink article 2002 – Stand and deliver by Peter McDermott
Unlike some progressives in the drugs field, I’m a big fan of the NTA… Stand and deliver (PDF)
Druglink article 2002 – Setting out the stalls: the new internal health market by Peter Mason
In the first of four articles, Peter Mason looks at the new NHS plan and what this means for drug treatment services. In the spotlight is the NTA and the role it can play in modernisation. He explains the lessons…
Druglink article 2002 – Legalisation: one way or no way by Neil McKeganey
Former cabinet minister Mo Mowlam has called for the legalisation of all drugs. But, says Neil McKeganey, the price of legalisation is not simply an issue for the UK government, bound as it is to various international treaties. And even if…
Druglink article 2002 – Wrestling with merger: DATs and CDRPs by Jim McManus
Some agencies find it difficult to even speak to one another, let alone work in partnership. It is hardly surprising therefore, observes Jim McManus, that the impetus to merge Crime and Disorder Partnerships with Drug Action Teams evokes emotions from…
Druglink interview 2002 – DAT’s much better : Mike Trace by Harry Shapiro
For the first time, data from all 149 Drug Action Teams has been analysed to present a picture of drug treatment throughout England. So what does Mike Trace, former deputy drug czar and now in charge of performance at the…
Druglink article 2012 – Strange bedfellows by Marcus Roberts
As Mark Twain’s mate and fellow writer Charles Warner observed, ‘politics makes for strange bedfellows’ – and none stranger than in the world of drug law reform. As Peter Hitchens and Kathy Gyngell lined up to give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee…
Druglink article 2012 – Never the bride by Trevor McCarthy
Trevor McCarthy argues that the Government’s new alcohol strategy still leaves alcohol treatment as drug’s poor cousin, but suggests Public Health England could be the driver to reprioritise substance misuse treatment. Never the bride (PDF)