the medic dame carol black was invited by the home office earlier this year to conduct an independent review of recovery services and treatment for drug addicts. she told our home editor mark easton what needed to change. what we need is a whole systems approach to it, so we need strong, central direction, that s why we need a central drugs unit. we need national outcome framework, and then we need that really connected to the local authorities who have to deliver this treatment and recovery. we need that the money, if we get it, is ring fenced and then we need accountability. because, at the moment, the drug delivery system or the drug treatment system is so fragmented that many, many people get nothing more than a prescription for methadone. so it is vital, in your view,
we need that the money, if we get it, is ring fenced and then we need accountability, because at the moment, the drug delivery system or the drug treatment system is so fragmented that many, many people get nothing more than a prescription for methadone. so it is vital, in your view, that we do so at that bit out? we must sort it out, because as long as there is demand, there will be supply. and we have to reduce demand and the best way to reduce demand is by giving people really high quality treatment and recovery. there have been some suggestions that they have accepted your recommendations around spending for around three years, around £400,000,000, how would you respond if that is what turns out? i would be delighted
if it s true, then why haven t we built a drug treatment system as big as our prison system? thank you. as the purest heroin in the nation continues to hit the suburbs of the northeast, every day teenagers like alicia dubois are trying it for the first time without ever knowing that it might be their last. i didn t think anybody who looks the way that we did and grew up the way we did would turn out to be a heroin addict. but i know better now. once you re hooked on heroin, there are only two ways to end the heroin habit. and that is either treatment, long-term treatment, or death. the parents like to say it s not happening, not in my family, not in my community. so we close our eyes and kids continue to die. nearly half of the heroin addicts who were part of a long-term ucla study died
all that s true. if it s true, then why haven t we built a drug treatment system as big as our prison system? thank you. as the purest heroin in the nation continues to hit the suburbs of the northeast, every day teenagers like alicia dubois are trying it for the first time without ever knowing that it might be their last. i didn t think anybody who looks the way that we did and grew up the way we did would turn out to be a heroin addict. but i know better now. once you re hooked on heroin, there are only two ways to end the heroin habit. and that is either treatment, long-term treatment, or death. the parents like to say it s not happening, not in my family, not in my community. so we close our eyes and kids continue to die. nearly half of the heroin addicts who were part of a
if it s true, then why haven t we built a drug treatment system as big as our prison system? thank you. as the purest heroin in the nation continues to hit the suburbs of the northeast, every day teenagers like alicia dubois are trying it for the first time without ever knowing that it might be their last. i didn t think anybody who looks the way that we did and grew up the way we did would turn out to be a heroin addict. when i grew up i definitely had a stereotype and thought of drug users as different people but i know better now. once you re hooked on heroin, there are only two ways to end the heroin habit. and that is either treatment, long-term treatment, or death. the parents like to say it s not happening, not in my family, not in my community. so we close our eyes and kids continue to die. nearly half of the heroin addicts who were part of a