The Hardest Drug: Heroin and Public Policy

Kaplan, John

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“…Consumed on an occasional or regular basis under sanitary conditions, its worst side effect, apart from the fact of being addicted, is constipation. 74 That is one reason why many doctors in early 20th-century America saw opiate addiction as preferable to alcoholism and prescribed the former as treatment for the latter where abstinence did not seem a realistic option. "…”

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Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives

Nadelmann

1989

Science

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"Drug legalization" increasingly merits serious consideration as both an analytical model and a policy option for addressing the "drug problem." Criminal justice approaches to the drug problem have proven limited in their capacity to curtail drug abuse. They also have proven increasingly costly and counterproductive. Drug legalization policies that are wisely implemented can minimize the risks of legalization, dramatically reduce the costs of current policies, and directly address the problems of drug abuse.

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Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives

Nadelmann

1989

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“…The idea of pushing arose in urban inner cities where school grounds were believed to be fertile sites for the sale of marihuana and other illegal drugs. Kaplan (1983, pp. 25–26) has argued that, from an economic and risk of arrest perspective, it is unlikely that sellers would be willing to push heroin to unknown customers.…”

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Heroin diffusion in the mid‐Hudson region of New York State

Fürst

Herrmann

Leung³

et al. 2004

Addiction

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“…That Kerr et al say the differences across groups were not apparent in September 2003 is important evidence supporting a causal interpretation, but it is not dispositive for at least two reasons. First, it has long been understood that drug using careers are chaotic, and even dependent heroin users go through phases of greater and lesser use, and greater and lesser stability in their lives (Preble & Casey, 1969;Johnson, 1978;Kaplan, 1983;Hser et al, 2007). Some PWID who were stable and not sharing in September 2003 may have started sharing by December 2003 and vice versa.…”

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Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites

Pardo¹,

Caulkins²,

Kilmer³

2018

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The Hardest Drug: Heroin and Public Policy

Cited by 34 publications

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Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives

Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives

Heroin diffusion in the mid‐Hudson region of New York State

Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites

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