Professor John Strang

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Drug Policy and the Public GoodGood knowledge
and knowledge gaps

• Professor John Strang
• National Addiction Centre, London, UK

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Drug Policy and the Public Goodthe recent
collaborative project of the international
invisible college

• Led by Professor Tom Babor
• funding from SSA (Society for the Study of
  Addiction)

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Drug Policy and the Public Good

• Publication date early in 2010
• Publisher Oxford University Press

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What proportion of the pie? UK Government
Expenditure Estimated 1.4 billion per annum
(2000)
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Quality of evidence

• Evidence obtained from at least one properly
  designed randomised controlled trial.
• II. - 1 well-designed controlled trials (not
  RCT).
• II. - 2 cohort or case-controlled analytical
  studies (pref. gt1 centre/group).
• II. - 3 multiple time series with/without
  intervention.
• III. Opinions of respected authorities, based on
  clinical experience/descriptive studies, or
  reports of expert committees.

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The 4 false dichotomies

• Law enforcement versus treatment
• (cops versus docs)
• Abstinence versus harm reduction
• Mistakenly presented as either/or
• legal versus illegal drugs
• (good drugs versus bad drugs)
• drug users versus mainstream society
• (overlapping and health and social and c.j. gain
  for all)

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• Thank you

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