Statement on the Review of Drugs: Government must wake up and adapt their strategy

Statement on the Review of Drugs: Government must wake up and adapt their strategy

Publication date

Friday, February 28, 2020

NAT (National AIDS Trust) welcomes Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. The report highlights that the Government’s current drug strategy is failing and with drug deaths at a record high more needs to be done to implement radical and innovative solutions to prevent further avoidable deaths.

Natasha Dhumma, Head of Policy and Campaigns at NAT (National AIDS Trust), said:

Major overhaul of drugs policy needed to address a UK public health emergency

Major overhaul of drugs policy needed to address a UK public health emergency

Publication date

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

NAT (National AIDS Trust) emphatically welcomes the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on drugs policy. The report highlights the current drugs-related deaths crisis, with 2,670 deaths in the UK last year – an increase of 16% from the previous year and the highest on record - and calls on the Government to implement radical and innovative solutions to prevent further avoidable deaths.

Highest ever drug misuse deaths

Highest ever drug misuse deaths

Drugs
Following the news that Glasgow will open the first safe injecting rooms in the UK, Daniel Vincent asks if we’re doing enough in England and Wales to meet the health needs of people who inject drugs.

Is just one pill a day always the best way?

Is just one pill a day always the best way?

Treatment
Treatment for HIV involves combining drugs from three different classes of anti-retroviral (ARVs) and there are single pill regimens that contain such combinations. Pills which only have to be taken with one or two others, and only once a day, are also available and are popular.