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Frankly they don’t give a damn. When will the Government commit to a proper drugs prevention policy?
By Kathy Gyngell
Last updated at 12:41 PM on 9th January 2012
With reader comments
Kathy Gyngell is a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies
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By Kathy Gyngell
Last updated at 12:41 PM on 9th January 2012
With reader comments
Kathy Gyngell is a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies
Even more shocking than last week’s statistic, brought to light by the Daily Mail, that over 12,000 children under 16 were arrested for drugs offences last year, was the Government’s casual response.
Drug use is dropping, it came. 'Our goal is to prevent young people from taking drugs by using early intervention programmes and services like FRANK to ensure they have the support and information to make the right choices'.
How very reassuring. Not.
Yet individual schools have demonstrated the efficacy of sniffer dogs and drugs testing. Yet both Sweden and the United States have now, for several years, run remarkably effective police-led, school-driven prevention and intervention programmes, and witnessed far more dramatic drops in teen drug use than here. The government’s senior drug advisors however have insisted that there is no ‘evidence’ to justify trying them here.
Unless the Government does act and stop this namby pamby, ill-conceived approach to respecting teen choice and start to say no, we can expect the number of kids arrested for possessing and dealing drugs to go up again next year.
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