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DOCUMENT 2012 HTM file
Will intensive testing and sanctions displace treatment?
Enforce frequent drug or alcohol testing and levy swift, certain and meaningful sanctions for substance use, and many dependent users stop using without treatment. Is this increasingly how problem use will be dealt with, or just a niche option applicable to users over whom society can exert sufficient leverage?
STUDY 2010 HTM file
South Dakota 24/7 Sobriety program evaluation findings report
Drink-driving offenders on South Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety project test alcohol-free at over 99% of the twice-daily breath tests intended to enforce abstinence via the threat of immediate brief imprisonment, and subsequent recidivism is lower than among other drink-driving offenders in the state.
STUDY 2015 HTM file
Using behavioral triage in court-supervised treatment of DUI offenders
From California, the first evaluation of a system which escalated drink/drug drivers to treatment if they failed a less intensive sentence found significantly reduced recidivism and accidents, and evidence that injuries related to accidents also fell.
STUDY 2001 PDF file 183Kb
No increase in use after cannabis possession made a civil offence
Allowing personal-use cannabis offenders to avoid criminal proceedings by paying a small fine did not lead to increased cannabis use in South Australia and avoided disrupting the lives and careers of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
OFFCUT 2003 PDF file 246Kb
Criminalising drug possession in the Czech Republic did not reduce drug problems
When in 1999 the Czech Republic criminalised unauthorised possession of illegal drugs the result was to waste money on prosecutions which did little to reduce drug problems and deterred help-seeking.
STUDY 2005 PDF file 104Kb
US study finds penalties for drug dealing near schools fail to shift dealers
For over a decade many US states have mandated especially severe penalties for drug dealing near schools. Just as the UK started down the same route, the only US study of the effectiveness of this strategy found it did nothing to drive dealing away from schools.
REVIEW 2010 HTM file
Drugs, crime and public health: the political economy of drug policy
Book which includes a critique of the evidence that crime reduction measures featuring coerced treatment for offenders have reduced overall crime levels in Britain and more generally of the use of evidence in policymaking, based partly on observations made while the author was a government adviser.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
An evaluation of the implementation of the objectives of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005; first interim report summary
Scotland's 2005 licensing reforms were of nationwide interest because they placed it in the vanguard across the UK, notably in adding public health to licensing objectives. While staff say other elements are working well, disappointingly this key measure has so far had little impact.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
Do drug policies affect cannabis markets? A natural experiment in Switzerland, 2000–10
Studies of a 'natural experiment' in Switzerland in the 2000s suggested that the effective re-criminalisation of cannabis production and distribution did diminish availability and use of the drug. The results contradict other findings suggesting that national policies have little effect on cannabis use.
REVIEW 2010 HTM file
Effectiveness of policies restricting hours of alcohol sales in preventing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms
UK research is inconclusive, but international research from developed nations supports the belief that increasing on-licence opening hours leads to more drinking and more alcohol-related harm.
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