{"id":27416,"date":"2017-12-15T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=27416"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:39","slug":"drugs-are-we-dealing-with-them-correctly-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/uncategorised\/drugs-are-we-dealing-with-them-correctly-in-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"Drugs &#8211; are we dealing with them correctly in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Should the UK consider a different approach to drug misuse in following Portugal&#8217;s decriminalisation\u00a0success?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27526\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27526\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/drugs--625x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27526\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/drugs--625x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" \/><\/noscript> Is the UK dealing with the drug problem effectively? \u00a9Konstantin Lazorkin\/Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Statistic&#8217;s show that drug misuse problems are on the rise in the UK with more mortalities recorded per million in 2016 than any other year on record.<\/p>\n<p>With the issue becoming more prominent, questions are raised about how to deal with drug misuse and whether the UK&#8217;s methods are the most effective.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27528\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27528\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/Drugs-infographic-piktochart-625x2317.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"2317\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27528\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/Drugs-infographic-piktochart-625x2317.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"2317\" \/><\/noscript> How bad was the drug misuse problem in the UK in 2016?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should the UK deal with drug misuse? 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