The Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970: Retrospective Assessments of Disparate Treatment and Consequential Impact

Although the basic paradigm of the U.S. federal drug policy targeting the supply and demand reduction has not changed since its enactment in 1970, there have been seriously undesirable disparate treatments and impacts among various population groups. Although U.S. Congress could not define what is d...

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Published in:Social work in public health 2017-01, Vol.32 (4), p.290-300
Main Authors: Yamatani, Hide, Feit, Marvin, Mann, Aaron
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classification
disparate impact
disparate treatment
Drug abuse
Drug policy
Drug prevention
Evidence-based practice
Health administration
Healthcare Disparities
Humans
Legislation, Drug
Legislatures
Policy Making
Prejudice
Prevention
Race
Racial discrimination
Racism
Religion
Retrospective Studies
Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control
Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
Supply & demand
Treatment methods
U.S. federal drug policy
United States
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Summary:Although the basic paradigm of the U.S. federal drug policy targeting the supply and demand reduction has not changed since its enactment in 1970, there have been seriously undesirable disparate treatments and impacts among various population groups. Although U.S. Congress could not define what is discrimination, it did provide two major criteria for the assessment of discriminatory practices as follows: (a) disparate treatment-basing a key decision on association with any of the five prohibited individual's demographic classifications (race, color, religion, sex, or national origin); and (b) disparate impact-correlation between any of the five prohibited demographic classifications and the key outcomes. In reference to those criteria, this article describes evidence-based indicators of national failure of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act.
ISSN:1937-1918
1937-190X
DOI:10.1080/19371918.2017.1282389