[Perspectives] The rise, fall, and revival of recovery in drug policy
Source: The Lancet
The British Government's recent drug strategy, Reducing Demand, Restricting Supply, Building Recovery: Supporting People to Live a Drug-Free Life (2010), focuses on recovery from addiction. The strategy claims that it has recovery at its heart. Long-term extended treatment using methadone or other substitute prescribing, without a definite endpoint, is now out of favour. Many addicts say that they want to come off drugs and so the Government aims to facilitate that desire. This so-called new abstentionism has been a controversial change in the drug field.