Licit and illicit drug policies: a typology

Summary To foster comparison of policy interventions across the various categories of licit and illicit drugs, we develop a typology of policies intended to address drug abuse problems. The principal dimensions of the typology are policy type and intervention channel. While the typology has importan...

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Published in:British Journal of Addiction 1990-02, Vol.85 (2), p.255-262
Main Authors: WARNER, Kenneth E., CITRIN, TOBY, PICKETT, GEORGE, RABE, BARRY G., WAGENAAR, ALEXANDER, STRYKER, JEFF
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcoholism - prevention & control
Biological and medical sciences
Drug and Narcotic Control - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental health
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Street Drugs
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
United States
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Summary:Summary To foster comparison of policy interventions across the various categories of licit and illicit drugs, we develop a typology of policies intended to address drug abuse problems. The principal dimensions of the typology are policy type and intervention channel. While the typology has important limitations, as a mechanism to organize information and stimulate thought it holds the potential to improve understanding of commonalities and distinctions among policies applying to widely discrepant drug problems, both within and across cultures. As such, it could contribute to the development of more effective approaches to grappling with a diverse set of drug policy issues.
ISSN:0952-0481
0965-2140
2056-5178
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb03081.x