Tackling Drug Market Interventions

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Type Of Market

 

Providing Treatment Services

Enforcement

Situation prevention

Open Markets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dependent users

 

 

 

 

High payoffs for a readily identifiable client group

Market will respond to policing but displacement will be likely.

 

 

 

 

Plenty of scope for reducing site amenity. Scope for targeting core markets e.g. sex workers

 

 

 

Casual users

 

 

 

 

Very limited payoffs

‘Inconvenience policing’ may be effective in reducing demand

 

 

 

Scope for reducing site amenity

Closed Markets

Dependent users

 

 

 

 

High payoffs, if it proves feasible to locate clients (e.g. through outreach work)

Enforcement strategies will be costly (e.g. covert surveillance) displacement is very likely.

 

 

 

Limited scope for reducing suite amenity. Some scope for targeting core markets.

 

 

 

Casual users

Very limited payoffs

Enforcement strategies will be costly but demand may be reduced

 

 

 

Limited scope for reducing site amenity

 

 

 

 

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