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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Illegal drugs and evidence based practice.

My last post concerning academic standards and social work prompted some really interesting emails from you, plus a spate of people unsubscribing. The unsubscribing may have been coincidental, but there's part of me that hopes it wasn't.

So I thought I'd better stay away from controversy for a while which is why this post is about drugs.

Do you see what I did there?

Anyway. The Today programme ran a piece on Monday concerning a new report from the UK Drugs Policy Commission (UKDPC) which has been 6 years in the writing; it's evidence based and offers some interesting ideas on tackling drug misuse in the UK. The subsequent debate between a UKDPC representative and Sarah Graham, who's the government's advisory council on illegal drugs, touched on the methodology of the report. Really interesting stuff.

The report itself can be found here and the audio of the debate is here (after the link opens, scroll down to 7:51 in the running order and you'll see it there). 

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