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Informationen zum Autor Richard Huggins is Associate Dean, Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University. In addition to this he is the trustee and director of the Substance Misure Arrest Referral Team and a trustee (Chair) and director of the Oxfordshire User Team, a pioneering user advocacy charity. Klappentext This book presents an analysis of the strategic and policy responses to illicit drug use in the Britain. It discusses the ways in which the UK government has aimed to ensure a framework for the delivery of drugs services and interventions, in a global economic and political context and will be essential reading for students and practitioners. Zusammenfassung This book presents an analysis of the strategic and policy responses to illicit drug use in the Britain. It discusses the ways in which the UK government has aimed to ensure a framework for the delivery of drugs services and interventions, in a global economic and political context and will be essential reading for students and practitioners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Strategy, Policy and Partnerships 1. Introduction: Legislative Frameworks and Policy Contexts - Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain? 2. The Strategy of Partnerships: Tackling Drugs Together 3. Co-ordinating Policy and Practice: Drug and Alcohol Actions Teams 4. Focusing on Treatment: The Role of the National Treatment Agency 5. Where Do We Go From Here? De-classification, Re-classification or Liberalisation - Future Directions for Drug Strategy and Policy Part 2: Policy into Practice - Interventions, Treatment and Care 6. Getting in Early: Prevention and Education 7. Pre-arrest, Mandatory Testing and Deferred Cautions 8. Delivery at the Front-line: Arrest Referral and the Drugs Intervention Programme 9. Community Sentences and Control: Choices Backed with Sanctions? 10. Residential Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities 11. Crack Cocaine 12. Prison Interventions, Throughcare and Support 13. Conclusion: Policy, Prevention and Practice ...
