REPORTS AND FINDINGS
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REPORTS
Impacts of localism and austerity measures
- Drug enforcement in an age of austerity - October 2011
- By their fruits... Applying payment by results to drugs recovery - February 2011
Control of new psychoactive substances
- Taking Drugs Seriously: A Demos and UK Drug Policy Commission report on legal highs - May 2011
- Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs: a review of recent experiences - May 2011
Stigma experienced by drug users
- Getting Serious About Stigma: the problem with stigmatising drug users - December 2010
- Sinning & Sinned Against: The Stigmatisation of Problem Drug Users - August 2010
Impacts of drug use
- Drugs and diversity: The impact of drugs on different minority groups - July 2010
- Supporting the Supporters: families of drugs misusers - November 2009
Drug-related law enforcement
- Refocusing drug-related law enforcement to address harms - July 2009
- Tackling Drug Markets and Distribution Networks in the UK: a review of the recent literature - July 2008
Promoting recovery
- Working Towards Recovery: Getting problem drug users into jobs - December 2008
- Getting problem drug users (back) into employment - social security and problem drug users: law and policy - December 2008
Getting problem drug users (back) into employment - research with service users, providers and employers - December 2008 Recovery Consensus Statement: Developing a vision of recovery -
Review of drug policy
- April 2007
SUBMISSIONS & ARTICLES
- Illicit drugs and public health: briefing paper - February 2012
- UKDPC evidence to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into Public Health - November 2011
- In drug policy, pragmatism is the only moral approach - Battle of Ideas - October 2011
- Work Capability Assessment: issues encountered by people with drug problems - September 2011
- UKDPC/DrugScope response to the draft outcomes for payment by results for drugs recovery - August 2011
Sentencing Bill: Drug Users still need practical help - Left Foot Forward - June 2011
- Submission to the Department of Health Healthy Lives, Healthy People consultation - March 2011 Submission to the Ministry of Justice Breaking the Cycle consultation - March 2011 Letter to the Editors' Code of Practice Committee - January 2011 Submission to the Social Security (Welfare Reform Drugs Recovery Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (consultation) 'The other half of the equation: employers' readiness to recruit problem drug users' (Drugs and Alcohol Today, March 2009) [216KB PDF] Memorandum to the Work and Pensions Select Committee for their Inquiry into the Equality Bill - February 2009 Response to the Department for Work and Pensions' Welfare Green Paper "No One Written Off" - October 2008 Consideration of the evidence in relation to the Conservative Party proposals, "Prisons with a Purpose" - September 2008
- 'Finding common ground' (Druglink, July/August 2008) [61KB PDF]
- 'Bars to progress' (Drink and Drug News, 21 April 2008) [109KB PDF]
- Submission to the Department of Health Healthy Lives, Healthy People consultation - March 2011 Submission to the Ministry of Justice Breaking the Cycle consultation - March 2011 Letter to the Editors' Code of Practice Committee - January 2011 Submission to the Social Security (Welfare Reform Drugs Recovery Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (consultation) 'The other half of the equation: employers' readiness to recruit problem drug users' (Drugs and Alcohol Today, March 2009) [216KB PDF] Memorandum to the Work and Pensions Select Committee for their Inquiry into the Equality Bill - February 2009 Response to the Department for Work and Pensions' Welfare Green Paper "No One Written Off" - October 2008 Consideration of the evidence in relation to the Conservative Party proposals, "Prisons with a Purpose" - September 2008
Legal controls
- UKDPC submission to the Leveson Inquiry - January 2012 UKDPC response to Liberal Democrat Conference motion on drug harms - September 2011
- Briefing for House of Lords debate on the proposal for a review of UK drug laws - March 2011
- Submission to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill Committee - January 2011
- Submission to Sir David Omand’s Review of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)
- '2009 Tackling drug supply awards: Case studies' (a report for the Home Office) [1.6MB PDF]
Legal and sentencing policies
- Submission to the Labour Justice Policy Working Group - January 2012 Response to the Sentencing Council's Drug Offences Guideline - June 2011
- Submission to the Sentencing Advisory Panel consultation on sentencing for drug offences - July 2009
- Submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee Cocaine Trade Inquiry - July 2009
- Submission to the Department for Transport Road Safety Compliance Consultation (Drug Driving) - February 2009
- Submission the to Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) MDMA (ecstasy) Classification Review - September 2008
- Submission to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Cannabis Classification Review - January 2008
- UKDPC Special Edition of 'Safer Communities' (January 2009) [831KB PDF]
- 'Sentencing drug users' (Magistrate, Winter 2008) [156KB]
- 'How can enforcement agencies reduce drug harm?' (Police Professional, September 2008) [281KB]
- 'The role of drug testing in the criminal justice system' (Drugs and Alcohol Today, September 2008) [140KB]
Drug strategies
- Briefing: Drug policy – getting the strategy right for the long term - December 2010 Response to the 2010 Drug Strategy Consultation Paper
- Memorandum to the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee Inquiry 'Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy' - July 2009
- Response to the Welsh Assembly Government’s Substance Misuse Strategy Consultation Paper - May 2008
- Response to the UK Government’s Drug Strategy Consultation Paper - October 2007
- 'Addressing the lack of knowledge underpinning the UK drug strategy' (Drugs and Alcohol Today, December 2007) [64KB PDF]
NOTES FROM EVENTS
- UKDPC presentation to House of Lords Welfare Reform briefing, 22 April 2009.
- Minutes of the Joint All-Party Parliamentary Group Meeting on Drugs and Prisons: 'Making things better - three independent ways ahead' - 27 January 2009 (London, House of Lords)
- UKDPC ‘Policy Zone’ at Drugs and Alcohol Today - May/June 2008 (London and Glasgow)
