UK - Heroin and crack addiction falls by 25,000

[edgarshade]

Independent

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Saturday, 3 September 2011

With reader comments

Britain's drug problem is on the wane according to figures which show that the number of heroin and crack users is down and their average age is rising.Research suggests there are 25,000 fewer addicts in 2009-10 than six years ago when the first survey by experts from the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow was carried out.

However, banning the legal high mephedrone in 2009 has had the perverse effect of increasing the danger to drug users, experts say.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...d-crack-addiction-falls-by-25000-2348396.html

 

[Pegasus]

Britain's drug problem is on the wane

Only if you consider the drug problem to only include heroin and crack...

 

[Crankinit]

And as soon as it trends upward again, it'll be 'the sky is falling!'

These things go in cycles, like everything else.

 

[edgarshade]

Prohibition, as a policy, is under fire. The statistics _have_ to look as if prohibition is working. In the past, when prohibition was more widely considered to be the best and only solution, the statistics had to show that drug use was out of control to justify more prohibition.

 

[Crankinit]

Prohibition, as a policy, is under fire. The statistics _have_ to look as if prohibition is working. In the past, when prohibition was more widely considered to be the best and only solution, the statistics had to show that drug use was out of control to justify more prohibition.

When drug use goes down: 'Prohibition is working, keep it up!'

When drug use goes up: 'We aren't trying hard enough, more prohibition!'

Gotta love it.

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Hopefully the UK will go through with their talk of decrim.