Decriminalization: Analysis and finding
Author : Marvin Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN :
The Legalization of Drugs
Author : Doug Husak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2005-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139445855
Book Description
In the United States today, the use or possession of many drugs is a criminal offense. Can these criminal laws be justified? What are the best reasons to punish or not to punish drug users? These are the fundamental issues debated in this book by two prominent philosophers of law. Douglas Husak argues in favor of drug decriminalization, by clarifying the meaning of crucial terms, such as legalize, decriminalize, and drugs; and by identifying the standards by which alternative drug policies should be assessed. He critically examines the reasons typically offered in favor of our current approach and explains why decriminalization is preferable. Peter de Marneffe argues against drug legalization, demonstrating why drug prohibition, especially the prohibition of heroin, is necessary to protect young people from self-destructive drug use. If the empirical assumptions of this argument are sound, he reasons, drug prohibition is perfectly compatible with our rights to liberty.
Legalize This!
Author : Douglas N. Husak
Publisher : Verso
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drug legalization
ISBN : 9781859846636
Book Description
Explodes many of the myths that surround drug use.
Decriminalizing Mental Illness
Author : Katherine Warburton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108826954
Book Description
An in-depth examination of the factors contributing to the criminalization of mental illness and strategies to combat them.
Considering Marijuana Legalization
Author : Jonathan P. Caulkins
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0833088750
Book Description
Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. In May 2014, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill requiring the Secretary of Administration to produce a report about various consequences of legalizing marijuana. This resulting report provides a foundation for thinking about the various consequences of different policy options while being explicit about the uncertainties involved.
The Drug Legalization Debate
Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1999-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761906902
Book Description
This completely revised and updated secong edition of the Drug Legalization Debate continues to address, and offer alternatives to, the major issues.
Marijuana Legalization
Author : Jonathan Paul Caulkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190262400
Book Description
Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) provides readers with a non-partisan primer covering everything from the risks and benefits of using marijuana to what is happening with marijuana laws around the world. This book serves as the price of admission for any serious discussion about marijuana legalization.
A Quiet Revolution
Author : Ari Rosmarin
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN :
Book Description
'A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in Practice Across the Globe' is the first report to support Release's campaign 'Drugs - It's Time for Better Laws'. This report looks at over 20 countries that have adopted some form of decriminalisation of drug possession, including some States that have only decriminalised cannabis possession. The main aim of the report was to look at the existing research to establish whether the adoption of a decriminalised policy led to significant increases in drug use - the simple answer is that it did not. This then begs the question that if the model of enforcement adopted has little impact on levels of use what is the point in pursuing a criminal justice approach which carries significant harms for individuals? [from Website]
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309459575
Book Description
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Preventing HIV Transmission
Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309176212
Book Description
This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs. Should communities have the option of giving drug users sterile needles or bleach for cleaning needs in order to reduce the spread of HIV? Does needle distribution worsen the drug problem, as opponents of such programs argue? Do they reduce the spread of other serious diseases, such as hepatitis? Do they result in more used needles being carelessly discarded in the community? The panel takes a critical look at the available data on needle exchange and bleach distribution programs, reaches conclusions about their efficacy, and offers concrete recommendations for public policy to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. The book includes current knowledge about the epidemiologies of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use; characteristics of needle exchange and bleach distribution programs and views on those programs from diverse community groups; and a discussion of laws designed to control possession of needles, their impact on needle sharing among injection drug users, and their implications for needle exchange programs.
