How Successful has British Drug’s Policy been in the ‘Battle against Drugs’. Chapter One Introduction : The Drugs phenomenon “ The desire to experience some altered state of consciousness seems to be an intrinsic part of the human condition...we are surrounded by drugs...the cups of coffee and tea, the glasses of beer, wine and whiskey, the snorts of cocaine, the joints, the tablets of acid, the fixes of heroin, and the ubiquitous tranquillisers and …showed first 75 words of 5753 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5753 total…be so, millions of people in Britain have tried Cannabis, and other illicit drugs once with only sub-cultural or minority appeal, are being used by a much higher proportion of the young. Their motives appear to be less concerned with peer group status and more with rational consumption as part of young people’s approach to their leisure time. This suggests that the prevelence of drug use will be sustained and normalised towards the year 2000.