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| Subject: Former RCP president backs review of drugs laws Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:49 am | |
| Decriminalising drug use could drastically reduce crime and improve health, the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians has said.
Sir Ian Gilmore said the laws on misuse of drugs should be reviewed and that their supply should be regulated.
He had formed his view after seeing the problems caused by dirty needles and contaminated drugs, the BBC's health correspondent Adam Brimelow said.
The government said it did not believe this was the right approach.
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