This blog is taking a break until early September. drug and alcohol services.
David Chater, head of policy at youth charity Rainer, says the tax is a brave proposal. The treatment tax is a brave step and is really positive, it would double the budget for drug and alcohol services. It takes a brave politician to say they increase tax, especially on something like alcohol.
But Chater is less impressed with the report&s emphasis on abstaining from drugs and alcohol. Measures like reclassifying cannabis as a class B drug, risk dragging a lot more young people into the criminal justice system. The best bits are outside the addiction section, with ideas for family support that will do more to tackle substance misuse than abstinence programmers.
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