Stevens, Alex and Hughes, Caitlin (2012) A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31 (1). pp. 101-113. ISSN 1465-3362.
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Abstract
In this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding success’ or a ‘disastrous failure’. Acknowledging from their own experience the inherent difficulties in studying drug law reform, Caitlin Hughes and Alex Stevens take the central competing claims of the protagonists and consider them against the available data.They remind us of the way all sides of the drug policy debates call upon and alternatively use or misuse ‘evidence’ to feed into discussions of the worth, efficacy and desirability of different illicit drug policies. In doing so they provide pause for thought for those of us who operate as drug policy researchers and drug policy advocates.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare > HV5800 Drug use and miuse |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research |
| Depositing User: | Taryn Duhig |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2012 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2012 09:45 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29901 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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