The Irrelevance of Evidence in the Development of School-Based Drug Prevention Policy, 1986-1996
In: Evaluation review: a journal of applied social research, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 118-146
ISSN: 0193-841X, 0164-0259
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In: Evaluation review: a journal of applied social research, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 118-146
ISSN: 0193-841X, 0164-0259
In: Behavioral medicine, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 66-73
ISSN: 1940-4026
Criticism of the "war on drugs" pursued under Republican administrations has grown in the United States. With the election of Bill Clinton many experts expected a shift from law enforcement policies to an approach favouring treatment and prevention. The budget announced in April, however, revealed no such shift in allocation of resources. Although the war on drugs has apparently failed to reduce the supply of cheap heroin and cocaine to the United States, the prevention strategy favoured by its opponents--school based prevention programmes--has not yet been shown to be effective in dealing with the concentration of drug misuse among the socially disadvantaged. In looking for new strategies Clinton must satisfy both liberals and conservatives in Congress, and community policing might therefore prove to be a politically expedient option.
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In: Alcohol and alcoholism: the international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism (MCA) and the journal of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), Band 24, Heft 6, S. 509-512
ISSN: 1464-3502
In: Substance use & misuse: an international interdisciplinary forum, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 155-158
ISSN: 1532-2491
In: Substance use & misuse: an international interdisciplinary forum, Band 32, Heft 14, S. 2033-2046
ISSN: 1532-2491
In: Alcohol and alcoholism: the international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism (MCA) and the journal of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), Band 41, Heft 2, S. 193-199
ISSN: 1464-3502
In: Substance use & misuse: an international interdisciplinary forum, Band 39, Heft 10-12, S. 1713-1750
ISSN: 1532-2491