Putting up the cost of alcohol could lead some homeless people to cheap and illegal drugs, a charity has warned.
The BBC notes that Richard Edwards of the Huggard Centre fears new policy "may simply change one addiction for another".
Basically, if you price people out of one market another will appear.
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ReplyDeleteWent to a secondary school "Drugs awareness evening" for parents a few years back. When asked what was driving the teens to buy dodgy unregulated drugs from weirdos in parks, the coppers answered with a straight face, "We've done such a good job of preventing underage drinking that the teenagers can't get hold of alcohol."
ReplyDeleteWell done. Driving the children from a dangerous, but regulated, substance to illegal and unregulated substances. What a win.