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<p>This Government’s ten-year Drug Strategy, <em>From Harm to Hope,</em> sets out
a whole system approach to reduce drug-related crime through its three priorities:
breaking drug supply chains; delivering a world-class treatment and recovery system;
and achieving a significant reduction in demand for illicit drugs.</p><p>The Home
Office is investing £300 million over three years to mobilise a robust and innovative
end-to-end plan which attacks every phase of the supply chain, and the Department
for Health and Social Care a further £780 million over three years to rebuild drug
treatment and recovery services.</p><p>Combating Drugs Partnerships have been set
up to cover every local area across England and offer a new blueprint for local accountability.
Treatment helps reduce crime and local authorities in West Yorkshire have been allocated
over £7.3 million for 2022/23 to improve services in line with the ambitions of the
drugs strategy.</p><p>Project ADDER, which is supporting the delivery of the strategy
outcomes, trail-blazes a whole-system response to drive down drug related offending,
drug deaths and drug use in 13 sites across England and Wales. In total, Wakefield’s
Project ADDER funding allocation will be £1,670,000 for 2022/23, which includes both
health and enforcement funding.</p><p>We have also published a white paper, ‘Swift,
Certain, Tough: New Consequences for Drug Possession’ that proposes tougher, escalating
penalties for so-called recreational drug users who drive the demand for drugs and
fuel criminal markets.</p><p> </p>
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