Mind-Bending Behind Bars: Drug Use in British Prisons

Mind-bending behind bars: drug use in British prisons

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If you want to extrapolate from this that control works, then you only have to consider the counterpoint: over the same period there has been a shift from a medical model of treating heroin addiction to a legal one of punishing its use, and during that …
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A Firsthand Look at Portugal's Drug Policy

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“Treating drug users as people who are sick, rather than as criminals, resonated with Portuguese society, because the phenomenon cut across all sectors: it was almost impossible to find a family that didn't have a problem with a son or daughter, nephew …
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