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Licit and illicit drug policies: a typology
Author(s) -
WARNER Kenneth E.,
CITRIN TOBY,
PICKETT GEORGE,
RABE BARRY G.,
WAGENAAR ALEXANDER,
STRYKER JEFF
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb03081.x
Subject(s) - typology , psychological intervention , illicit drug , set (abstract data type) , principal (computer security) , intervention (counseling) , drug , political science , psychology , criminology , sociology , computer security , psychiatry , computer science , anthropology , programming language
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.