Recommendation 23

We recommend that the Combating Drugs Minister leads on devising a cross- departmental action plan to tackle stigma. In devising the action plan, the Government must engage with people with lived experience of drugs and stakeholders in the drug treatment and recovery sector to understand fully how stigma can affect people and how best to tackle it. The action plan must be published before the end of February 2024. We further recommend that the Government work with the devolved administrations to roll-out a coordinated, UK-wide campaign to tackle stigma.