The long, strange trip

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The long, strange trip

• Ten years of a drug strategy

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Harry Shapiro

• DrugScope

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DrugScope

• UKs main drug information charity
• UKs largest drug sector membership organisation
• Europes largest information bank of resources on
  the misuse of drugs
• First port of call for media comment and
  background on drugs issues
• Secretariat of Parliamentary All Party Group on
  Drug Misuse
• Policy and information advice to government

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1966

• Amount of heroin seized nil
• Number of known heroin users 1349
• No drug strategy
• No treatment system
• No drug squads

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2006

• Amount of heroin seized 2.1 metric tons (2004)
• Number of heroin users 300,000 plus

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AND..

• SMAS DAT DRG CJIP DIPCARAT
• 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..

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The tipping point

• 1979

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The Road to Strategic Thinking

• 1982 ACMD report Treatment and Rehabilitation
• 1985 Home Office Tackling Drug Misuse
• 1990 UK Action on Drug Abuse The Governments
  Strategy
• 1993 Across the Divide

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The Future

• What will the new strategy look like?
• Will there be a new strategy?
• Mainstreaming?
• Local devolution?
• Funding?

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Be part of the change

• Regional member events in March/April
• National conference in July
• Conference presentations and networking
• Online consultation
• New website enhanced membership area