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Help with Substance Misuse
The Substance Misuse
Partnership Board
The Newham Substance Misuse Partnership
Board (SMPB) works to combat the social, economic and health
problems related to drug and alcohol misuse in the
borough.
We do this through the joint action of the local community, the
police, Local Authority, Primary Care Trust and other
agencies working in the borough.
Statement of Intent
- To operate within a clear framework of
preventative and protective work addressing social, economic and
public health consequences relating to substance
misuse
- To concentrate on the problem of illegal
drugs in accordance with the national strategy while also
addressing the key concerns identified through the Local Strategic
Partnership in Newham
- To focus on minimising risk and reducing harm
by recognising the importance of balancing the provision of
effective support, advice and information for those currently using
substances, with the need to prevent experimentation and early use
of drugs and alcohol and protect the community from the effects of
crime related to drug and alcohol use
- The Newham Substance Misuse Partnership Board
promotes harm reduction by recognising a hierarchy of harm in
patterns of substance misuse
How will the Substance Misuse Partnership Board
deliver?
- By developing and recommending to partnership agencies an
inclusive local strategy to achieve the aims of the national drugs
strategy in Newham
- By monitoring and evaluating the delivery of the local
strategy, including the performance and quality of local services,
and keeping the strategy under review
- By promoting the substance misuse strategy
- By focusing the attention of the principal agencies and
other stakeholders on the actions needed to deliver the local
strategy, and ensuring local resource collaboration to those
ends
- By ensuring that service users and their carers have an
opportunity to influence service
development
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