Analysis of the UK Government's 10-Year Drugs Strategy-a resource for practitioners and policymakers.
Government and Law
addiction
public health
Journal
Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
ISSN: 1741-3850
Titre abrégé: J Public Health (Oxf)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101188638
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
14 Jun 2023
14 Jun 2023
Historique:
received:
01
06
2022
revised:
10
08
2022
medline:
19
6
2023
pubmed:
31
10
2022
entrez:
30
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In 2021, during a drug-related death crisis in the UK, the Government published its ten-year drugs strategy. This article, written in collaboration with the Faculty of Public Health and the Association of Directors of Public Health, assesses whether this Strategy is evidence-based and consistent with international calls to promote public health approaches to drugs, which put 'people, health and human rights at the centre'. Elements of the Strategy are welcome, including the promise of significant funding for drug treatment services, the effects of which will depend on how it is utilized by services and local commissioners and whether it is sustained. However, unevidenced and harmful measures to deter drug use by means of punishment continue to be promoted, which will have deleterious impacts on people who use drugs. An effective public health approach to drugs should tackle population-level risk factors, which may predispose to harmful patterns of drug use, including adverse childhood experiences and socioeconomic deprivation, and institute evidence-based measures to mitigate drug-related harm. This would likely be more effective, and just, than the continuation of policies rooted in enforcement. A more dramatic re-orientation of UK drug policy than that offered by the Strategy is overdue.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36309802
pii: 6779883
doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdac114
pmc: PMC10273368
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e215-e224Subventions
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/N00616X/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health.
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