NCJ Number
190715
Date Published
2000
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This report presents the British Government's second Annual Plan for implementing its 10-year strategy for addressing drug abuse in 2000/2001 and beyond.
Abstract
The plan outlines how the strategy is to be coordinated at the national and international levels, and it focuses on England in describing how the strategy is to be delivered and monitored at the national, regional, and local levels across the four aims of the strategy. Details on how the strategy is to be delivered in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are provided in one section of the report. The four aims of the 10-year strategy are to help youth resist drug abuse, to protect communities from drug-related antisocial and criminal behavior, to enable people with drug problems to overcome them and live healthy and crime-free lives, and to reduce the availability of illegal drugs. The plan outlines the structural changes and initiatives to be implemented during 2000/2001 in achieving the aims of the strategy. Internationally, the plan will implement efforts to reduce the availability of controlled drugs entering the United Kingdom. Nationally, a Strategic Planning Board will be established to coordinate and monitor the progress of the strategy, and a new National Treatment Agency will be created to be responsible for the expansion of drug treatment provision and for ensuring the delivery of high quality services in England. Regionally, the Home Office Drugs Prevention Advisory Service will be expanded to address all four aims of the strategy. Locally, there will be a reorganization of Drug Action Teams in England to align all of them with local authority boundaries, thus increasing the number of teams and enhancing their cooperation with other local groups concerned about drug abuse. This report also describes the Confiscated Assets Fund and sets out the research and information program that supports the strategy as a whole as well as each of its aims. A glossary and 12 references