Prohibition Won’t Win War on Drugs
January 17th, 2007 by ddetox
Scotland. There is no chance of a drugfree Scotland in the future, according to a former police chief. The grim warning came from Tom Wood, former deputy chief constable, now chairman of the Scotish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action teams (ADATs).
He said drug policy in the 1980 had failed. And he added: “No one here will live to see a drug-free Scotland and a drug-free Europe. Because the truth is that many people, large sections of our community, quite recreationally and normally use alcohol and drugs and do it as a matter of choice and a matter of life style and never come to our attention. So if we vilify all drugs and alcohol, then we will completely disengage that section of the community.”
He said that despite spending more than 100 million pounds in the last ten years, the Government have failed to come up with a “coherent, integrated or successful strategy on either alcohol or drugs”. “We have failed to get in touch with a whole generation of young people and make them aware about the proper use and danger of both drugs and alcohol.”
He told the Edinburgh conference that alcohol and drugs had to be looked at in the context of other social issues.
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