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The lame consensus on treatment

The lame consensus on treatment Editorial Axel Klein Editor A.Klein@kent.ac.uk With the war on drugs officially over, the red carpet and a question on the link between problematic was rolled out to Professor Tom McLellan at the drug use and poverty fell on stony ground. Yet in National Addiction Centre on 8 March 2010. The spite of all that, the audience was placated, happy lecture hall was packed with representatives from to compromise on common positions after a couple the UK drugs field waiting to hear what the deputy of decades of ever widening divergence between director of the Office on National Drug Control UK and US policy. If the US drugs policy is at Policy (ONDCP) had to say about the future of last coming in line with the civilised world, it is drugs in America. happening at the very time when its international How different from the summer of 2000, when status is impaired and its influence to shape Barry MacCaffrey, drug czar and general, conducted international agencies is deeply compromised. his tour of Europe full of swagger, misinformation Interesting, though, were the insights into and certitude. The ONDCP today seems a very the wider treatment sector in the US. Though different http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Drugs and Alcohol Today Emerald Publishing

The lame consensus on treatment

Klein, Axel
Drugs and Alcohol Today , Volume 10 (2): 4 – May 21, 2010
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Emerald Publishing
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1745-9265
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10.5042/daat.2010.0250
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Editorial Axel Klein Editor A.Klein@kent.ac.uk With the war on drugs officially over, the red carpet and a question on the link between problematic was rolled out to Professor Tom McLellan at the drug use and poverty fell on stony ground. Yet in National Addiction Centre on 8 March 2010. The spite of all that, the audience was placated, happy lecture hall was packed with representatives from to compromise on common positions after a couple the UK drugs field waiting to hear what the deputy of decades of ever widening divergence between director of the Office on National Drug Control UK and US policy. If the US drugs policy is at Policy (ONDCP) had to say about the future of last coming in line with the civilised world, it is drugs in America. happening at the very time when its international How different from the summer of 2000, when status is impaired and its influence to shape Barry MacCaffrey, drug czar and general, conducted international agencies is deeply compromised. his tour of Europe full of swagger, misinformation Interesting, though, were the insights into and certitude. The ONDCP today seems a very the wider treatment sector in the US. Though different

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Published: May 21, 2010

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