Were Kofi Annan and the other signatories to the Global Commission on Drugs Policy Report misled by the Report’s exaggerated claim of rising global drug use? This is the question asked by Kathy Gyngell in ‘Misleading and irresponsible drug prevalence statistics’, a new CPS Factsheet....
The CPS' Prison and Addiction policy area provides an independent forum of debate about drugs policy for academics, practitioners, psychiatrists, and specialist commentators.
The CPS aims to examine and compare both drug policy and addiction treatment here and in Europe - identifying the reforms required in the UK to get our drug problem under control, to prevent drug use and to offer substance abusers the help and necessary care to combat their abuse.
Drugs treatment policy for England 'doomed to failure'
The BBC looks in depth at Kathy Gyngell’s Breaking the Habit report, which explains why the current rehabilitation agenda costs the taxpayer £3.6 billion.
Is Portugal’s drug policy a good example to follow?
Kathy Gyngell has a letter in The Times, explaining that fewer young people trying drugs reflects wider trends throughout Europe, rather than a success for Portuguese drug policy. She also explains how drug-related deaths have been rising in Portugal.
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Kathy Gyngell interviewed on BBC about methadone use
