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Drug-War Milestone: UK drug searches and drug offences both reach record levels Russell Newcombe Lifeline Project Drug-related searches and offences in the UK have now reached unprecedented levels. First, drug-related stops & searches by the police in England & Wales climbed to a record level of 405,000 in 2006/07, up from just 32,500 in 1986. This constitutes a twelve-fold increase in 20 years, and amounts to over 1,100 drug-related stops & searches per day

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16-Oct-2008

Fitting into the future Part 1 Ian Wardle, Lifeline CEO Without a vision, serious self-criticism is impossible It is easy to sneer at long-term exercises in ‘visioning’, but a serious, integrated approach to tackling deep-rooted inequality and deprivation is, quite frankly, inconceivable without a dedicated, explicit and strongly aspirational long-term plan. So although ‘Treatment may Work’ and ‘Treatment may be Good’ it does not in any way excuse us, as an industry, from developing a solid critique of all those things about treatment that don’t work and aren’t good…

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