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The Road to Goodenough: Drugs, conferences, pubs and debate

The Road to Goodenough: Drugs, conferences, pubs and debate. David MacKintosh. What Goodenough says. Views those with or experiencing substance use related problems within their community setting. Youth Services should be statutory. Improve housing provision.

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The Road to Goodenough: Drugs, conferences, pubs and debate

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  1. The Road to Goodenough: Drugs, conferences, pubs and debate David MacKintosh

  2. What Goodenough says Views those with or experiencing substance use related problems within their community setting. • Youth Services should be statutory. • Improve housing provision. • Primary care for substance use. • No custody unless treatment available.

  3. 1999 and the world of drugs policy • Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain – co-operative approaches for “everyone who cares about the future of our society”. • Tremendous range of individuals and organisations in regular contact with a small body of Ministers, Czars and policy makers. • Acknowledgement that TDTBABB bridged many conflicting ideological positions. • Very vibrant sector intellectually and in terms of service development – lively (!!) conferences.

  4. Growth, Management and Playing the Game • Rousing conferences, arguments, and walkouts. • Blackpool February 2003. • LDPF Conference Local Matters autumn 2005. Debate retreated to the margins. • Something significant and important seemed to have gone from the field.

  5. So what do you do? What was Goodenough aiming for? • To allow people to argue and debate. • Capture creativity while allowing it space. • Re-kindle the passion that was smouldering. • Add excitement to an otherwise dull life.

  6. Blowing on the embers • Clearly many with a burning interest. • The hook; a new National Strategy. • What would you like to see in the “now”? • Work with others in identifying the who and how.

  7. Feed thirty minds and bodies…. • Real world simulation – based on current political and legal position. No blank (but some big) cheques. • Carefully crafted – but still like herding cats. • Debate on both the whys and hows of service delivery across the sector. • Tremendous engagement.

  8. What we got – radical middle ground? • Surprising level of something approaching consensus… • Placed substance use firmly within the community – not “other”. • Focussed on the individual. • Easy access/low threshold. • Neither health nor crime focussed.

  9. What happened and where next? • Blood tears and publication. • Pleased with responses – particularly welcomed by those outside the drugs sector. • Much is up to YOU. • Opportunity to help influence policy at international, national, regional and local level. • Engage, discuss, argue.

  10. To Infinity (or at least 2018) and beyond • Lets make sure it is Goodenough…

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