We have proactively opened up the drug policy conversation with a wider range of public audiences and communities, and harnessed framing research and techniques to get the ear of a widening pool of policymakers and parliamentarians. [...] As we look ahead to the future, Transform is in a strong position to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the coming years for progressing our mission to make safer drug policy a reality. [...] 9 Along with Release and the Faculty of Public Health, we led on a joint letter calling on the Government to rethink its proposals, signed by over 400 groups, academics, medical and treatment professionals, pharmacists and lawyers, including the British Medical Association, Faculty of Public Health, Association of Directors of Public Health, Liberty, Inquest, the Police Foundation, and the College. [...] Our new resource showcasing the successful approaches to drugs happening in the UK The number of drug offence diversion schemes, where police replace arrests and criminal charges with diversion into education or support, continues to grow in the UK, with over a dozen forces and the whole of Scotland now using them. [...] In the autumn we travelled to Utrecht in the Netherlands to support and speak at the opening of the ‘world’s first MDMA shop’, which had a series of different mock-up retail models designed to provoke debate.
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