Chris Ford, David Nutt, Niamh Eastwood, Deborah Gold, John Jolly, Fionnuala Murphy, Kate Halliday, Jamie Bridge
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Abstract
The UK government has published its 2017 drug strategy,12 and we are greatly concerned at the lack of focus on harm reduction—an evidence based response that protects people and saves lives—at a time when drug related deaths are the highest on record. The government acknowledges in the strategy that the rise in drug related deaths is “dramatic and …