Community Responses to Local Drug Use
The Police Journal, Volume: 80 Issue: 4, November 2007, Page(s): 306-318
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/pojo.2007.80.4.306
Mark Mason
"This study sets out to examine what drugs users feel about different styles of intervention and what effect these might have on their drug-use behaviour. Responses indicated a level of ‘entrenched-ness’ of drug use among some of the sample, suggesting that very little would deter them from taking drugs in any way. However, there was a noteworthy number of respondents who indicated that they were clearly influenced by local communities. It is suggested that Neighbourhood Policing (NP) presents an opportunity within a framework of police–community liaison to achieve a sustained impact on community drug problems."