Approaches to Alcohol and Drugs in Scotland: A Question of Architecture (Executive Summary) from the think tank Scotland Future Forum takes a systemsmapping approach to how Scotland can reduce the damage to its population through alcohol and drugs by half by 2025.   It has a compantion volume in 12 Dimensions of a Manageable Problem.

It states that drug use has been historically seen as a justice issue but should be treated as a health, lifestyle and social challenge. A greater proportion of resources should be allocated to treatment research, monitoring and evaluation. The concept of drug consumption rooms and heroin-assisted treatment to combat the high levels of drug-related deaths and hepatitis C infection is considered along with law enforcement.  The report finds prison unproductive and unsustainable for low-level alcohol and drug offences.  It also recommends cannabis should be taxed and highly regulated to help reduce availability and harm.