ABSTRACT
A great deal has been said about the links between drugs and crime and, in Britain, an increasing amount of resources is given to drugcrime prevention programmes. For example, the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2001 involves estimated costs for national implementation of the new drug-testing proposals of approximately £45.5 million (House of Commons 2000: 24). This is a small part of an ever increasing spiral of expenditure aimed at reducing drug use – rightly described as the scourge of our age – and the corresponding social and economic problems it brings.
