What can be achieved with drug prevention?

The UK Government's recent 10-year Drug Strategy, From Harm to Hope (the Strategy), presents an ambition to “achieve a generational shift in the country's relationship with drugs and to reduce overall drug use towards a historic 30-year low” through “bold steps to change attitudes in society around the perceived acceptability of illegal drug use”. This commentary focus’ the potential impacts of drug prevention activity outlined in the Strategy and considers the feasibility of achieving this headline outcome considering constraints on UK prevention systems.

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