United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 150
Drugs: Misuse
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19 December 2019
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7 January 2020 · Answer
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7 January 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of drugs policy in reducing the rate of infection from blood borne viruses.
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19 December 2019
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of drugs policy in reducing the rate of infection from blood borne viruses.
Source: Commons
7 January 2020
Answer
There is good evidence that a combined approach of harm reduction programmes such as needle and syringe programmes (NSP), opioid substitution treatment and abstinence-based treatment is the most effective way to tackle public health harms, including the s...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-12-19/150
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1168435
- uk · wq-1168435 · source updated 7 January 2020