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Drugs Policy

Proceeding contribution from Victoria Atkins (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 October 2018. It occurred during Debate on Drugs Policy.

I have one minute left, so I am afraid I will have to refuse more interventions.

We are helping users through needle and syringe programmes, to prevent infections, and opioid-substitution therapy, and widening the use of naloxone. The Home Secretary has commissioned an independent review of

the drugs market in the 21st century—it is not quite the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s, as the hon. Member for Inverclyde represented. We need to understand how the drugs market works today. That is why, as part of our drugs strategy and our serious violence strategy, working with health partners, we are convinced that this is the right approach.

4.22 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
648 cc89-90WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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