Well me DD I'm in favour of drugs being given out to addicts from regulated clinics
I know that sounds like a good answer (and it is already done in the UK) however it doesn't work, it doesn't put the dealers out of business, it just makes them more determined to create more fresh customers - as is the case now, the target age is getting younger and younger, kids have money these days.
Have you seen what some of the modern drugs do to people, its no longer your spaced out people that you laugh at as you go past, they make people manic and dangerous - do you also supply those type of drugs through registered clinics as well?
Encourage more employers to do drug tests, put it in the employees contract that drug tests will be requested at random, refusal to take a drug test is grounds for dismissal.
Allocate specific manpower police officers and a separate independent monitoring cell made up of local people. It has to be the community that rejects drugs, it must be local people who are given a position of power. If the will is there it can be done. I've said before, it is not in the police's interest to eliminate drugs, it is only in their interest to regulate drugs.
Drugs is about profit, there is no practical way to lower the price (eg giving out free drugs), so you need to price the drugs upwards by making them scarce. Just keep hitting the small street level dealers non-stop, the supply slows down, the price goes up and up and up. The amount of effort and money put in trying to hit Mr Big just isn't worth it, break the chain between the users and the source at the easiest place, on the street.
There are still plenty of clubs and pubs where drugs are sold fairly openly, there are streets where you see deals going on in broad daylight, there are houses where there is a constant stream of people (and taxis), why are we still seeing this?
Pay awards to people that provide details of dealers.
Stop calling addiction an "illness" call it a plague.
Get rid of the current ABC categories of illegal drugs, drugs are either legal, illegal or prescribed.