Kathy Gyngell and Andy Horwood demonstrate how to analyse the dynamic between objectives and performance targets of government drugs and alcohol policy, identify policy  prerequisites for expansion and growth of ‘quality’ treatment, and discuss the contribution to policy planning and practice by ‘recovered addict interest groups’.

Kathy Gyngell is research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and chair of its Prisons and Addictions Forum.

She has chaired and authored the two seminal Addictions volumes of Breakdown Britain and Breakthrough Britain, the Social Justice Policy Review for the Conservative Party.