The importance of people who use drugs within drug policy reform debates: Findings from the UK Drug Policy Voices online survey
By Rebecca Askew, Ben Griffiths and Melissa Bone / Drug Policy Voices UK
Drug Policy Voices is a UK-based project designed to integrate the voices and experiences of people who use drugs into debates about drug policy reform. An online survey was conducted in 2020 to understand opinions connected to drug use and drug policy. We used a blended values approach combining Moral Foundations Theory (Haidt and Joseph, 2004; Haidt and Graham, 2007) and MacCoun and Reuter's (2001) four philosophical positions that underpin the drug policy. This paper asks, what values do people who use drugs hold surrounding drug use and drug policy, and what factors predict these values?