Tackling drugs to build a better Britain : the Government's ten-year strategy for tackling drugs misuse / presented to Parliament by the President of the Council by Command of Her Majesty, April 1998.

  • Great Britain. Privy Council.
Date:
1998
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Credit: Tackling drugs to build a better Britain : the Government's ten-year strategy for tackling drugs misuse / presented to Parliament by the President of the Council by Command of Her Majesty, April 1998. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    services - including primary care - when needed, providing specific support services for young people, ethnic minorities, women and their babies; @ provide problem drug misusers with accurate information, advice and practical help to avoid infections and other health problems related to their misuse; @ support problem drug misusers in reviewing and changing their behaviour towards more positive lifestyles - linking up where appropriate with accommodation, education and employment services; @ provide an integrated, effective and efficient response to people with drugs and mental health problems; @ ensure that prescription of substitute medications (eg methadone) in particular and dispensing of clinical services in general (including prescribed legal drugs) are in line with forthcoming Department of Health clinical guidelines; @ improve the range and quality of treatment services provision specifically for the under 25s, in line with Standing Conference on Drug Abuse guidance; @ = ensure that throughcare and aftercare arrangements for drug misusing prisoners are coherent, focused and linked to community provision; @ develop collaborative, coherent, accessible and cost-effective service provision through Drug Action Teams. @ increase participation of problem drug misusers, including prisoners, in drug treatment programmes which have a positive impact on health and crime - KEY OBJECTIVE; @ __sincrease the proportion of problem drug misusers in contact with drugs services; @ __sreduce the proportion of drug misusers who inject, and the proportion of those sharing injecting equipment over previous three months; @ ~_—sreduce numbers of drug-related deaths; @ reduce numbers of drug misusers being denied immediate access to appropriate treatment.