Assumptions about Drugs and the Marketing of Drug Policies

Abstract

policies for dealing with drugs, while presented as rational models built on empirical bases and offering sensible plans to improve American society, are actually largely determined by policy makers' wrongheaded assumptions about drug use, abuse, and addiction / given the popularity of stereotypes about drugs and treatment, we need to market alternative assumptions in order to create sounder drug policies introduction: say whatever you want about drugs as long as it's negative / drug policy and models of drug abuse and addiction [the disease and law enforcement models of addiction, the modern drug policy synthesis and its problems, alternative views: the libertarian and social welfare models, an innovative synthesis of drug models and its implications for drug policy] / harm reduction, drug legalization, and models of addiction / marketing alternative drug policies (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)