Publication Date:
1990-09-28
Description:
Drug policy should strike the right balance between reducing the harm done by psychoactive drugs and reducing the harm that results from strict legal prohibitions and their enforcement. It is concluded, from a cost-benefit analysis based on pharmacologic, toxicologic, sociologic, and historical facts, that radical steps to repeal the prohibitions on presently illicit drugs would be likely, on balance, to make matters worse rather than better. Specific recommendations are offered for ameliorating the dangers to users and to society that are posed by each addictive drug.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldstein, A -- Kalant, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Sep 28;249(4976):1513-21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stanford University, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2218493" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Caffeine
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Cocaine
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Ethanol
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*Health Policy
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Humans
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Plants, Toxic
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*Psychotropic Drugs/adverse effects/toxicity
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Street Drugs
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Tobacco
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
