Grahame Morris MP Working for Easington
Although there is much to welcome in the drugs strategy and in Dame Carol Black’s report, it seems that the Government are placing ideology above public safety.
I always want public policy to be informed by the evidence. I have a spent a good deal of time in the drugs, alcohol and justice cross-party parliamentary group and there is ample evidence for the positive effects of heroin-assisted treatment programmes.
I asked the Minister if he would consider the evidence and reconsider his position on heroin-assisted treatment rooms to save lives and create safer communities: