Home Affairs Committee. (2012) Home Affairs Committee - ninth report. Drugs: breaking the cycle. London: The Stationery Office.
External website: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/...
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Key facts
1 Introduction
Recommendations from the last Home Affairs Committee report on drugs policy
Drug driving
Increase in treatment places
Treatment in prisons
Prescribing diamorphine (heroin)
Education and prevention
The aims of drugs policy
2 Global drugs policy
o History of international drugs control
o The unintended consequences of drugs policy
o Current international drugs policy
o The impact of globalisation on the drugs trade
o The balloon effect
o The environmental impact of drugs
o Links between drugs, organised crime and terrorism
o Human rights abuses
3 Education and prevention
o Current levels of drug usage
o Drug education in schools
o Government focus on prevention and education
o The Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs
4 Treatment
o Current treatment options
How do we determine the most effective methods of treating addicts?
OST: Methadone and buprenorphine
Implementation of the Government's goal of recovery
o Health and Wellbeing Boards
o Payment by results
o Prescription drugs
5 The legislative framework and law enforcement relating to drugs
o Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
o Drug-related policing
o UK assistance abroad
o Money laundering
o The impact of austerity on drug-related policing
o Identifying drug-related crime
o Drug Intervention Programme
o Dedicated drug courts
o New psychoactive substances
o Use of the internet
o The effect of having a drugs conviction
o Cross-Departmental strategy
6 Drugs in prisons
o Drug use in prisons
o Availability of drugs in prisons
o Drugs addiction treatment in prisons
o Drug recovery wings and support on release
o Abstinence or maintenance?
o Breaking the cycle
o Lack of reliable data
7 Alternatives to Prohibition?
o Comparison with alcohol
o Decriminalisation and Legalisation
o Case study: Portugal
o The legalisation of cannabis in Washington State and Colorado
o Implications of discussing drugs policy - politics and the media.
Appendix 1: Recommendations from the 2002 Home Affairs Committee report on drug policy: Paper by the House of Commons Library
Annex 1: Some of the drugs available in the UK
Conclusions and recommendations
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Prevention by setting > School based prevention
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom
MM-MO Crime and law > Substance use laws > Drug laws
MM-MO Crime and law > Crime > Substance related crime
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use
A Substance use and dependence > Prevalence
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