Governing drug use through partnerships: Towards a genealogy of government/non-government relations in drug policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Thomas ◽  
Melissa Bull ◽  
Rachel Dioso-Villa ◽  
Catrin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Government Relations

Optimal drug use and rational drug policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 318-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey F. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Rational Drug ◽  
Optimal Drug

AbstractThe Müller & Schumann (M&S) view of drug use is courageous and compelling, with radical implications for drug policy and research. It implies that most nations prohibit most drugs that could promote happiness, social capital, and economic growth; that most individuals underuse rather than overuse drugs; and that behavioral scientists could use drugs more effectively in generating hypotheses and collaborating empathically.

We Can't Go Cold Turkey: Why Suppressing Drug Markets Endangers Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Werle ◽  
Ernesto Zedillo
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Drug Markets ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
The Right ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
Cold Turkey

This essay argues that policies aimed at suppressing drug use exacerbate the nation's opioid problem. It neither endorses drug use nor advocates legalizing the consumption and sale of all substances in all circumstances. Instead, it contends that trying to suppress drug markets is the wrong goal, and in the midst of an addiction crisis it can be deadly. There is no single, correct drug policy; the right approach depends crucially on the substance at issue, the patterns of use and supply, and the jurisdiction's culture, institutions, and material resources. Decriminalization is no panacea for a nation's drug problems. Nevertheless, either de jure or de facto decriminalization of personal drug possession is a necessary condition for mitigating this crisis.

scholarly journals The impact of drug policy liberalisation on willingness to seek help for problem drug use: A comparison of 20 countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 162-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Benfer ◽  
Renee Zahnow ◽  
Monica J. Barratt ◽  
Larissa Maier ◽  
Adam Winstock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Willingness To Seek Help ◽  
Problem Drug Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Problem Drug

scholarly journals Drug Use and Drug Policy Futures: Insights from a Colloquium

10.7249/ip246 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Caulkins ◽  
Peter Reuter ◽  
Martin Iguchi ◽  
James Chiesa
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy

scholarly journals Patient Is the New Black

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bartoszko
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Narrative Transformation

In this essay, I challenge the ways in which global drug policy initiatives call for more humane drug policy and decriminalization. Although these initiatives promote human dignity and agency, they also encourage a particular approach to drug use and addiction. Embracing patientism in their liberating narratives of ‘treatment, not punishment,’ these voices take for granted the advantages of their proposed approach. Drawing on my experiences with Norwegian OST, I illustrate patients’ engagement and resistance towards the politically hyped social categories and ask how we can understand this socio-political desire for a narrative transformation.

scholarly journals Figuras e facetas da lógica proibicionista-medicalizante nas políticas sobre drogas no Brasil / Figures and facets of the prohibitionist-medicalinzg logic in Brazilian drug policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
José de Araújo Brito Neto ◽  
Flavia Cristina Silveira Lemos ◽  
Dolores Cristina Gomes Galindo ◽  
Alcindo Antônio Ferla ◽  
Michelle Ribeiro Côrrea
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The Core ◽  
Drug Policies ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Política Criminal

ResumoEste artigo visa apresentar uma análise teórica a respeito da lei e norma na definição da opção política proibicionista no Brasil, nas últimas décadas. O debate central é como as políticas sobre drogas têm sido embasadas na perspectiva proibicionista. No bojo dessa postura de proibição legal, a tática repressiva ganhou expressão social e foi inscrita no plano da soberania jurídica normatizadora. Os movimentos de lei e ordem cada vez maisse entrecruzaram e passaram a requisitar a criminalizaçãodo uso e do comércio de drogas, em especial as consideradas ilícitas em um intricado campo de governamentalidades resultante de uma política criminal encarceradora e de umaperspectiva medicalizante do consumo de drogas legais, taiscomo os psicofármacos. Paralelamente, um conjunto de práticas discursivas e de poderoperaram conjuntamente na definição do que são drogas e de quais são lícitas e quais são ilícitas, por meio de um sistema de repartição complexo.Palavras-chave: Proibicionismo; Governamentalidades; Medicalização; Práticas sociais; Política sobre Drogas.AbstractThis paper offers a theoretical analysis of law and norm in the definition of Brazil’s prohibitionist drug policy in recent decades. The central argument advances that drug policies have been based on a prohibitionist perspective. At the core of this stance of legal prohibition, repressive tactics gained social acceptanceand were inscribed in a plan towards a normalizing judicial sovereignty. Law and order movements increasingly intercrossed and instituted the criminalization of drug use and the drug trade- particularly for those deemed illegal - by means of an intricate field of governmentalities which resulted in a carceral criminal policy and a medicalized view of legal drug use, including psychotropics. In parallel, a set of discursive and powerpractices operated jointly to define through a complex system of classification what constitutes a drug and which drugs are to be considered legal or illegal.Keywords: Prohibition; Governmentalities; Medicalization; Social Practices; Drug Policy.

scholarly journals Gang Talk and Strategic Moralisations in Danish Drug Policy Discourses on Young and Recreational Drug Users

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Thomas Friis Søgaard ◽  
Frank Søgaard Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Recreational Drug ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Policy Discourses

In Denmark, a moralization of recreational use of drugs has lately occurred. The use is interpreted in a neo-liberal framing seeing the user who can chose as selfish, not regarding the negative consequences of drug use in a wider sense, and the legislation has been sharpened.

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