Critical drug report 'watered down'
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Your support makes all the difference.The Government was yesterday accused of 'watering down' a critical report prepared for the Department of Health urging a strategic policy to combat drug misuse, writes Patricia Wynn Davies.
Tony Blair, shadow Home Secretary, claimed key recommendations by a firm of management consultants had been altered. 'The original version contained a stinging criticism of the failure of national government to provide a . . . coherent approach to drug misuse,' he said.
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