National Anti-Drug Strategy
for safer and healthier communities
August 25, 2009
MONTREAL – The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety and the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M. P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, along with Daniel Petit, M.P for Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, and Raf Souccar, RCMP Deputy Commissioner of Federal Policing, today announced the official launch of the RCMP's Synthetic Drug Initiative. The Synthetic Drug Initiative, the first Canadian drug strategy to specifically focus on a single class of drugs, is an RCMP-led program designed to eliminate the production and distribution of illegal synthetic drugs in Canada, and reduce the overall influence of organized crime on drug trafficking in Canada. [More...]
The Youth Justice Policy sector of the Department of Justice launched a series of community-based workshops in March 2007 to discuss the prevention of youth drug use and drug-related crime.
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Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) aim to reduce crime committed as a result of drug dependency through court-monitored treatment and community service support for offenders with drug addictions. [More...]
