| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-09T15:17:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-09T15:17:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ireland. Department of Justice and Equality, Irish Government Economic & Evaluation Service, 'Costings of an alternative approach to personal drug possession', [other], Department of Justice and Equality, 2019-05 | en |
| dc.description | This work follows on from the National Drug Strategy in 2017, ‘Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery (RHSR): A Health-led Response to Drug and Alcohol Misuse in Ireland 2017-2025’, which aims to provide an integrated public health approach to substance misuse. Ireland is at a pivotal stage in drug policy, with RHSR containing a strategic action to establish a Working Group to consider alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use. Under Irish law, personal drug possession is an offence and this paper aims to generate an estimate of the costs it places on associated agencies of the Department of Justice and Equality (DOJE). This paper uses internationally-applied approaches to the formulation of assumptions and all of the cost estimates used in this paper are high-level and serve as descriptors of the current policy approach only. Furthermore, the paper aims to estimate costs from potential alternative scenarios. The paper starts off with an introduction to the topic by offering a background to drug-related offences in Ireland and by identifying the demographics of people who use drugs, and will subsequently provide analysis of the current and proposed policy options. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Department of Justice and Equality | en |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Drug possession | en |
| dc.subject | Drugs policy | en |
| dc.title | Costings of an alternative approach to personal drug possession | en |
| dc.type | other | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | edepositireland | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Ireland. Department of Justice and Equality | en |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Irish Government Economic & Evaluation Service | en |
| dc.publisher.place | ireland | en |
| dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/94032 | |
