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Deaths of despair: how Britain became Europe’s drugs capital

A plan to tackle Britain’s drug problem was long overdue

11 December 2021

9:00 AM

11 December 2021

9:00 AM

If progress is ever made in the ‘war on drugs’, it will be thanks to people like Lorna Hughes. She runs a community centre in the Bell Foundry council estate in Loughborough. It was set up by residents appalled at how their neighbourhood had sunk into an underworld of drugs and crime.

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