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Repression, Reform and Drug Abuse: An Analysis of the Response to the Rockefeller Drug Law Proposals of 1973
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This article is published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.The article was published on 1974-07-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Substance abuse.read more
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Federal drug abuse policy and minority group issues--reflections of a participant-observer.
TL;DR: In this paper, the author reflected on the reflections of a participant-observer on federal drug abuse policy and minority group issues and the role of minority groups in minority drug abuse.
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War and peace: Drug policy in the United States and the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of the key components of the respective drug policies that have been developed in the United States and in the Netherlands is presented, and it is argued that the Dutch approach has generally produced more desirable outcomes than have U.S. efforts.
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Beyond the Federal Drug War: A Panel Study of State-Level Powder and Crack Cocaine Laws, 1977–2010
TL;DR: Scholars claim that more punitive drug laws are one of the main reasons for the rapid growth of U.S. incarceration rates and related collateral consequences over recent decades as discussed by the authors. Yet despite these claims, despite...
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Heroin--Myths and Knowledge: Impact on Public Policy
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that the United States attitude towards drug use and addiction has been punitive as well as unsuccessful in deterring drug use or in treatment of the addict, which has led to a more serious problem than it otherwise would have been.
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The liberal challenge
TL;DR: The authors argued that prohibitionist policies that are given force by the criminal law have failed to prevent the use of drugs, and that efforts to restrict drug use have created a plethora of so-cial evils far worse than the problem of drug use itself.