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Under this policy drug use remained low; there was relatively little recreational use and few dependent users, who were prescribed drugs by their doctors as part of their treatment. From 1964 drug use was decreasingly criminalised, with the framework still in place as of 2014 [update] largely determined by the Misuse of Drugs Act .
The Drug Interventions Programme is a key part of the United Kingdom's strategy for tackling drug abuse. [1] It aims to engage drug-misusing offenders involved in the Criminal Justice system in formal addiction treatment and other support, thereby reducing drug-related harm and reducing offending behaviour. [2] Introduced in 2003, it formed a ...
FRANK is a national anti-drug advisory service jointly established by the Department of Health and Home Office of the British government in 2003. [1] [2] It is intended to reduce the use of both legal and illegal drugs by educating teenagers and adolescents about the potential effects of drugs.
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Its terms of reference, [1] according to the Act, are as follows: . to keep under review the situation in the United Kingdom with respect to drugs which are being or appear to them likely to be misused and of which the misuse is having or appears to them capable of having harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem, and to give to any one or more of the Ministers, where either ...
These drugs are known in the UK as controlled drug, because this is the term by which the act itself refers to them.In more general terms, however, many of these drugs are also controlled by the Medicines Act 1968, there are many other drugs which are controlled by the Medicines Act but not by the Misuse of Drugs Act, and some other drugs (alcohol, for example) are controlled by other laws.
Drug related (or misuse) mortality rates have begun to rise in Scotland since the 1980s. [6] A variety of factors can be considered to be behind the beginning of the epidemic; Neo-liberal economic restructuring in the 1980s caused parts of large cities in Scotland to go into terminal decline causing income inequality to rise and increased inner city deprivation with the working-class ...
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