Drug policy priorities 'all wrong', says minister as he slams 'national disgrace'

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Updated September 21 2019 - 10:00pm, first published September 15 2019 - 4:30am

ACT Corrections and Justice Health Minister Shane Rattenbury has labelled the increasing number of people in Australian prisons "a national disgrace", created in part by the treatment of drug use as a justice issue rather than a health one.

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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