>But a Home Office spokesperson said: “We do not support the introduction of drug consumption rooms in England and Wales, due to significant concerns they risk encouraging drug use. We are working to tackle the supply of illicit drugs through relentless policing action and building a world-class system of treatment and recovery to turn people’s lives around, backed by £3bn funding over three years.”
The UK approach to drug policy is moronic. Just keep doing the same thing hoping to get a different result.
Yep. Although drug consumption rooms aren’t a complete answer to the problem of drug deaths, they help. To get them in place, we need support for them to extend beyond the SNP, Greens and, I think, LibDems. As with other key parts of drug policy reform, Labour and the Conservatives feel confident dismissing proposals like these sight unseen – an unscientific approach that has a human cost and means that any implementation might be short lived.
Good stuff. Now that a study part-funded by UKGov supports this idea, we might be allowed to roll DCRs out up here, just like we asked, intended, and tried to do years ago.
Shame so many people died in the interim.
How long before the tories pull a labour move and sack whoever did the study for being off message?
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>But a Home Office spokesperson said: “We do not support the introduction of drug consumption rooms in England and Wales, due to significant concerns they risk encouraging drug use. We are working to tackle the supply of illicit drugs through relentless policing action and building a world-class system of treatment and recovery to turn people’s lives around, backed by £3bn funding over three years.”
The UK approach to drug policy is moronic. Just keep doing the same thing hoping to get a different result.
Yep. Although drug consumption rooms aren’t a complete answer to the problem of drug deaths, they help. To get them in place, we need support for them to extend beyond the SNP, Greens and, I think, LibDems. As with other key parts of drug policy reform, Labour and the Conservatives feel confident dismissing proposals like these sight unseen – an unscientific approach that has a human cost and means that any implementation might be short lived.
Good stuff. Now that a study part-funded by UKGov supports this idea, we might be allowed to roll DCRs out up here, just like we asked, intended, and tried to do years ago.
Shame so many people died in the interim.
How long before the tories pull a labour move and sack whoever did the study for being off message?