Mid term Review of the National Drug Strategy: Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery

The national drug strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, sets out government policy on drug and alcohol use for the period 2017 to 2025. The strategy provides an integrated health-led approach to drug and alcohol use, focused on reducing the harms for individuals, families and communities and promoting rehabilitation and recovery.

Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery is a dynamic strategy, and mapped out a series of 50 integrated actions and holistic interventions which are to be delivered over the period 2017-2020.

The strategy provides the opportunity for the development of further actions from 2021 to 2025 to address needs that may emerge later in the lifetime of the strategy. The department has completed a mid-term review of the actions in the strategy, in consultation with stakeholders. The review provided an opportunity to reflect on progress in implementing the strategy from 2017 to 2020, progress achieved to-date under the action plan, to identify any new issues that have arisen since the strategy was launched including the impact of COVID-19 and to consider the development of new actions for the remainder of the strategy to address emerging needs and challenges.