An analysis of UK drug policy : a monograph prepared for the UK Drug Policy Commission / Peter Reuter [and] Alex Stevens.

The report finds that despite successive attempts by governments to control the demand for and supply of illegal drugs, drug policy appears to have had minimal impact on the overall level of use of illegal drugs in the UK. Other factors are seen as more important. However, as the report authors observe, drug policy is most successful in addressing the harms resulting from problem drug use, such as ill-health, death and crime.