Time for Change Survey and Report

31 SERVICE ACCESSIBILITY AND URGENT FUNDING Allocation of funding across supply, demand & harm reduction People were asked to allocate $100 worth of funding across the three pillars of the National Drug Strategy 2017-2026. On average, they chose to allocate just over half of funding to harm reduction programs, with 37% of funding allocated to demand reduction (e.g., treatment, public awareness campaigns), and just 12% allocated to supply reduction strategies such as law enforcement. As shown in Figure 12, investment in harm reduction was notably higher among gender diverse people, who also allocated less money to demand reduction than other respondents. Preferences for investment varied slightly between states, and genders, with higher investment in harm reduction and lower investment in supply reduction among younger age groups. Figure 12. Allocation of funding across harm reduction, demand reduction, and supply reduction