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Back to Home Office Drugs E-bulletinsDrugs E-bulletin - March 2008
Welcome to the March 2008 edition of the e-bulletin for the Home Office drugs website.
New plan to tackle illegal drugs
A new initiative calls for earlier intervention to get drug-using families into treatment, legal rights for police to seize property purchased with drug money and new approaches to drug treatment.
The government's new ten-year strategy for fighting illegal drugs is designed to ensure that fewer young people ever use drugs and that those who do get help to kick the habit and re-establish their lives.
It also aims to cut drug-related crime, and to reduce the damage that drugs do in our communities.
In 2008 the government will invest almost £1 billion in the programmes behind the new strategy. This investment will help to:
- extend police powers to seize drug dealers’ assets, ensuring that crime doesn't pay
- place a more responsibility on drug-users on benefits to get treatment and jobs
- tackle drugs through neighbourhood policing
- strengthen and extend international agreements to intercept drugs before they reach the UK
- focus on families where parents use drugs and prioritising treatment for parents in order to protect children
- try new approaches that allow more flexible use of resources, and more personalised treatment
- increase the use of community sentences, including some that require drug rehabilitation
- develop support for drug treatment, so that those who quit drugs get training and support so they can get back to work and re-establishing their lives
For further details see the drug strategy overview
To order a hard copy please contact Prolog and quote reference CDSD9
Tel: 0870 241 4680 email: dpas@prolog.uk.com
A practical guide for dealing with alcohol related problems: what you need to know
The aim of this guidance is to outline the tools and powers available to practitioners and the key legislative provisions to tackle alcohol misuse strategically, signposting as necessary to more detailed guidance which already exists.
This guidance is intended to assist all of those tasked with addressing the issues and problems presented by the misuse of alcohol. It is specifically aimed at practitioners and provides information to help them tackle those 'everyday' matters by outlining the powers and tools available
To order a hard copy please contact Prolog and quote reference CDSD 12.
Crime and Drugs Strategy Directorate publication list
The latest Crime Drug Strategy Directorate publication list is now available.
All publications, leaflets and posters are free to order.
