A 10-year plan to cut crime and save lives by reducing the supply
and demand for drugs and delivering a high-quality treatment and
recovery system.
From harm to hope: A 10-year
drugs plan to cut crime and save lives
Details
This is a 10-year plan for real change, with an ambition to
reduce overall use towards a historic 30-year low. Commitments
are made across government to break drug supply chains while
simultaneously reducing the demand for drugs by getting people
suffering from addiction into treatment, and deterring
recreational drug use.
This will help us to level up by stopping the cycle of crime
driven by addiction, keeping violence out of neighbourhoods
across the country and saving lives through reducing the number
of drug related deaths and homicides. The plan is supported by
record investment of nearly £900 million of dedicated funding
over the Spending Review period, taking the total investment over
3 years to £3 billion.
The 10-year plan is also the formal, substantive response to the
Independent Reviews of Drugs led by Dame Carol Black and accepts
all of her key recommendations.
The plan sets out 3 core priorities: break drug supply chains,
deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system, and achieve
a shift in the demand for recreational drugs
This will be achieved by:
- continuing to roll-up exploitative and violent county lines
and strengthen our response across the drug supply chain, making
the UK a significantly harder place for organised crime groups to
operate
- investing a further £780 million to rebuild drug treatment
and recovery services, including for young people and offenders,
with new commissioning standards to drive transparency and
consistency
- strengthening the evidence for how best to deter use of
recreational drugs, ensuring adults change their behaviour or
face tough consequences, and with universal and targeted activity
to prevent young people starting to take drugs
Local partners working together on our long-term ambitions will
be key to the strategy’s success, and we will develop a new set
of local and national outcomes frameworks to measure progress
against our key strategic aims through which government and
public services can he held to account at both national and local
levels.
