Publication: Prohibition, public health and a window of opportunity: an analysis of Canadian drug policy, 1985-1997
Prohibition, public health and a window of opportunity: an analysis of Canadian drug policy, 1985-1997
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Fischer, B. (1999). Prohibition, public health and a window of opportunity: an analysis of Canadian drug policy, 1985-1997. Policy Studies, 20, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442879908423778
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For almost a century, Canadian drug policy has been dominated by a paradigm of prohibition, driven by the practical and institutional interests of drug law enforcement. In the 1980s, a ‘policy window’ for reform opened on the federal government level via the opportunity to establish a new drug control law and to launch a major public health‐oriented drug policy initiative. A detailed analysis of these developments concludes that, despite the rhetoric of reform, these efforts reinforced and expanded rather than reformed prohibition con
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- Fischer, Benedikt
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Fischer, B. (1999). Prohibition, public health and a window of opportunity: an analysis of Canadian drug policy, 1985-1997. Policy Studies, 20, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442879908423778
