Toward Practical Drug Control Policies

Not only does intoxication challenge individual self-control and thereby create the threat of accident and crime, but drug-taking itself is an activity notoriously difficult to keep within its intended bounds. Drug control policies should be designed to minimize the aggregate damaged created by drug...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social research 2001-10, Vol.68 (3), p.884-890
1. Verfasser:	Kleiman, Mark A. R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accidents Alcohol Alcohol drinking Alcohols Alternatives to the War on Drugs: Rational Routes to Harm Reduction Cannabis Cocaine Crime Criminal law Criminal sentences Criminals Disorders Drug abuse Drug addiction Drug control Drug dealing Drug dependence Drug policy Drug traffic Drug trafficking Drug use Drugs Drunkenness (Criminal law) Evaluation Heroin Illicit drugs Imprisonment Intoxication Law enforcement Management Methadone Methamphetamine Narcotics Pharmaceutical policy Policy making Population Sanctions Self control Social aspects Social policy Social problems and social policy. Social work Sociology Substance abuse Substance abuse treatment United States Violence
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Zusammenfassung:	Not only does intoxication challenge individual self-control and thereby create the threat of accident and crime, but drug-taking itself is an activity notoriously difficult to keep within its intended bounds. Drug control policies should be designed to minimize the aggregate damaged created by drug abuse and drug dealing, and by efforts to control them.
ISSN:	0037-783X 1944-768X