WHERE HAS DRUG MONEY GONE?

IT WASN'T that long ago, I would guess just more than a year, that
the Prime Minister announced with some fanfare his initiative on drugs.

This was backed by some hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, as
I recall.

Is there any evidence that this initiative has had an
impact?

Surely this could be demonstrated statistically by now. Perhaps there
has been a reduction or a leveling off in the rate of overdose deaths.

If there is no sign that this is the case, who is going to call the
Prime Minister to account for those hundreds of millions of dollars,
not to mention the young lives which might have been saved simply by
trying something different?

JOHN DINN
Ngunnawal