Charlie Taylor, inspector of prisons for England and Wales, says dealers should be isolated and ‘assertively managed’Jailed criminals who are flooding prisons with drugs should be isolated like radical extremists and...
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Read MorePoorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to EuropeWhat was going through the mariners’ minds, embarking on a voyage they must have feared they would not survive?...
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Read MoreDavid Strang condemns underfunding of services and says ‘you can’t punish people out of addiction’The head of Scotland’s drugs deaths taskforce has rejected an approach that seeks to punish “people...
Read MoreCampaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctionsMiddle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy to be announced by...
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