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Health Education Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, 122-124, February 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

The Prosecution of Drug Users in Europe: Insights Series 5

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA): Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2002 ISBN 92-9168-124-5

Peter Squires

Reader in Criminology, University of Brighton

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This is a timely report, not least because its emerging findings expose something of the irony of contemporary drug law enforcement. The fate of the recent ‘experiment’ in South London, in which the Metropolitan Police adopted a much more low-key response to personal drug possession is a case in point, revealing something of the predicament facing policy makers. This initiative was blown entirely off-course following allegations regarding the private life of the chief police officer involved. This case aside, the ‘harm reduction’ case for diverting substance misuse interventions away from the criminal justice system has recently been gaining ground well beyond the health promotion field. Even so, it may well be that the simple burden of dealing with so . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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