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Built on sand - the database of british drug policy
Michael Ashton, Editor, Drug and Alcohol Findings, London
Abstract
Addiction treatment repays itself several times over in crime cost savings, pilot studies showed needle exchanges cut risk behaviour, NTORS supported inpatient detoxification units for heroin users, alcohol treatment repays itself five times over, these and other key evidential planks of Britain's drug policy are deeply flawed. Supposedly positive findings are so convenient that methodological flaws are overlooked and potentially contradictory results are not published or camouflaged. You may never again believe what you read.
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Biography
Mike Ashton is the editor of Drug and Alcohol Findings, a collaborative project involving the National Addiction Centre, DrugScope and Alcohol Concern. It produced the world's only magazine devoted to the effectiveness of alcohol and drug interventions and now offers a similar service from its web site http://findings.org.uk. Previously he produced the first Annual Reports on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union and Juice, a magazine for drug users in the UK. His background was 20 years at the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, then the UK's information service on the misuse of drugs.
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