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Research into policy: Giving power to knowledge @AlexStevensKent Professor in Criminal Justice University of Kent V1.0 To change the footer on every slide: 1. On the menu go to Insert > Header and Footer… 2. Select the Footer checkbox and enter the footer text in the accompanying text box 3. Click “Apply to All” @AlexStevensKent

How do we get evidence into action? Two main barriers in drug policy: Power Morality Examples of overcoming these barriers: HIV and harm reduction New Labour’s drug treatment expansion OST into English prisons Medical cannabis in the UK

Power: Who gets the money? Impact of income tax cuts in 2018 budget Source: Resolution Foundation

Power: Who dies?

Moral foundations and political identity

‘Policy constellations’ in UK drug policy Other countries and international bodies Public Health Social control Public health officials Home Office Transform Medico-penal constellation Cabinet Office CSJ Release Individual freedom ACMD Puritan moralism Police Media and publics Source: Stevens & Zampini 2018

The ‘moral sidestep’ in avoiding evidence Ronnie Cowan, MP: Drug consumption rooms have worked in “eight European countries, plus Australia and Canada … in the interests of public health, will the Prime Minister introduce DCRs in the United Kingdom?” Theresa May, MP: “I have a different opinion to some Members of this House. Some are very liberal in their approach to the way that drugs should be treated. I am very clear that we should recognise the damage that drugs do to people’s lives. Our aim should be to ensure that people come off drugs, do not go on drugs in the first place and keep clear of drugs. That is what we should focus on.” Source: Stevens 2018

How to overcome power inequality and the moral sidestep? Appeal to shared interests in reducing harm. Present a threat to the ‘ingroup’ ‘This hurts us all’ Create consequences for the powerful E.g. by legal actions Change the narrative Humanise people who use drugs Political mobilisation PR Congruent with purity and authority (e.g. medicalise the solution)

HIV/AIDS and harm reduction

New Labour and the expansion of drug treatment Graph based on NTORS, copied from the PMSU 2003b report on drug policy

OST into English prisons Graph based on NTORS, copied from the PMSU 2003b report on drug policy

Survival curve during the year following release (drug-related poisoning mortality) Source: Marsden et al, 2017

Medical cannabis in the UK

Lessons from success: a recap Appeal to shared interests in reducing harm. Present a threat to the ‘ingroup’. Create consequences for the powerful. Change the narrative.

Power and morality will always come back: But: Power and morality will always come back: Harm reduction superseded by recovery agenda. OST provision threatened by cuts. Medical cannabis prescribing very tightly limited. Feeding the narrative of purity and authority may create longer term problems. The struggle continues…

For more information/discussion Stevens & Zampini (2018). ‘Drug policy constellations’. International Journal of Drug Policy Stevens (2018). ‘Being human and the moral sidestep’. Addictive Behaviors Email: a.w.stevens@kent.ac.uk Twitter: @AlexStevensKent