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The Home Office has launched a £46.2m intensive package of measures to combat drug-related crime in 30 of the worst affected areas.

The package aims to provide support and treatment to rehabilitate offenders from the moment they are identified as drug users, throughout and beyond their sentence.

A key part of the initiative is compulsory drug-testing of offenders charged with crimes such as burglary to ensure drug users who commit crimes to feed their habit are identified early and offered treatment.