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The Prime Minister will launch a 10-year plan this week to tackle illegal drug-related crimes that will include disposing of offenders’ passports and driver’s licenses, it was reported.
The crackdown will also include soccer-style travel bans, harsher sentences for drug traffickers and measures to disband the County Lines gangs.
The Sun reported that Boris Johnson will describe “record” funding for addiction treatment and recovery services, with more money pledged to the 50 local authorities with the worst drug problems, including Middlesbrough, Blackpool and Liverpool.
We are not leaving anything off the table
“We need to find new ways to penalize them. Things that will really interfere with their lives, ”Johnson told the newspaper.
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“Therefore, we will see how to take away their passports and driving licenses.
“We are not going to leave anything off the table,” he added.
The government announced in July that it would establish a new unit to help end illnesses and deaths related to illegal drugs, as Part Two of Dame Carol Black’s Independent Drug Review was released.
The first phase of the review, published in February last year, estimated that there were 300,000 opiate or crack users in England and around a million people using cocaine per year.
Meanwhile, deaths from drug abuse intoxication are at a record high, having risen by nearly 80% since 2012.
Dame Carol’s review also determined that the illicit drug market in the UK is worth £ 9.4 billion a year, but costs society more than double that number.
If health considerations, cost of crime and social impacts are combined, the total cost of illegal drugs is £ 19 billion a year.
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