This week, the Home Office published its White Paper ‘Swift, Certain, Tough’, setting out changes to the criminal justice system’s approach to tackling adult drug possession in England and Wales. The paper builds upon the strategic priorities identified in the government’s 10-year drug strategy, ‘From harm to hope’ (December 2021). Those priorities are: breaking drug […]
Month: July 2022
The staggering power of data
Pay attention: why data isn’t boring Overcoming the yawn factor When I deliver a presentation on data, or speak about the topic in a meeting, I can often see people’s eyes slowly glaze over; their focus dwindles and their heads nod at random. Let’s face it – a good graph illustrating an unexpected trend generally […]
Building relationships in a digital world
Why face-to-face still matters In March 2020, Covid 19 hit the UK and it hit hard. In the early days of the pandemic, society got an insight into the typical feelings of people who use drug and alcohol services. Anxiety, desperation, fear of the unknown and, most deadly of all, isolation. Many people experienced the […]
