When heroin hit the streets of Bootle

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Julian Buchanan, Professor of Criminal Justice, (NEWI) has written a short but insightful account of the dawning of the UKs heroin problem in Merseyside and how the responses of the probabtion services rapidly evolved from consistently failing and over simplistic abstinence based programs into a more pragmatic multi-disciplinary bottom up approach base on harm/risk reduction. The article also highlights the role of social depravation in the emergence of problematic drug use. The article is from the 'moments in probation' series on the Community Justice Portal website.
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