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- Paglia, Angela, et al.
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The international drug control system in the post-Cold War era: managing markets or fighting a war?
- 1999
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Ingår i: Drug and Alcohol Review. - : Wiley. - 0959-5236 .- 1465-3362. ; 18:3, s. 305-315
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The core institutions and scope of the international drug control system are described. The system has grown in participation and particularly in scope and ambitions since it was studied in the early 1970s by Bruun and colleagues. Its premises are notably in conflict with the currently dominant ideologies of a free-market global economy although, as earlier, the United States plays a dominant role in the drug control system. At a time when it is seen as a failure in its primary aims both from inside and from outside, defenses of the system have ranged from rousing rhetorical appeals to efforts to “de-sensationalize” the issues.
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- Room, Robin, et al.
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Drugs in a global perspective : the international control system's best foot forward
- 1999
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Ingår i: Addiction Research and Theory. - New York : Informa UK Limited. - 1058-6989. ; 7:3, s. 177-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the World Drug Report, the United Nations Drug Control Programme offers a textbook on global trends and developments in drug use and in the illicit market, theories and interpretations of drug use, health and social harms from use, counterstrategies and programs, the drug control structure, and “regulation-legalization” debates. Country profiles for 8 countries summarize available data, making use also of two problematic comparative indices. Harms from alcohol and tobacco figure heavily in the arguments for maintaining drug prohibition, but these drugs are otherwise excluded from consideration. The report highlights deficiencies in available data, particularly on adverse consequences of drug use, though they are the premise for the drug control system. The report's picture of trends in drugs use and in the illicit market is realistically gloomy, and its presentation of the effectiveness of counterstrategies is usually appropriately cautious. The report is often internally inconsistent in its premises and arguments, but is true to its aim to “de-sensationalize the drugs issue”. De-sensationalizing drugs may, however, undercut the justification for a drug control system of such extraordinary ambitions and scope.
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- Room, Robin
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The idea of alcohol policy
- 1999
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Ingår i: Nordisk Alkohol- og narkotikatidsskrift (NAT). - Helsingfors : Stakes, Forsknings- och utvecklingscentralen för social- och hälsovården i samarbete med Nordiska nämnden för alkohol- och drogforskning (NAD). - 1455-0725 .- 1458-6126. ; 16:English supplement, s. 7-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Room, Robin
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The rhetoric of international drug control
- 1999
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Ingår i: Substance Use & Misuse. - New York : Marcel Dekker. - 1082-6084 .- 1532-2491. ; 34:12, s. 1689-1707
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Commission on Narcotics Drugs, a United Nations political organ, meets every year in Vienna. Country statements from the Commission's general debate in 1994 and 1995 are analyzed in terms of their rhetorical framing. The dominant frame is of drugs as a scourge or menace against which a war must be waged. There is consensus that the war is being lost. International cooperation and solidarity are proposed as what will turn the tide; in the context of a losing battle, calls for decriminalization are seen as an unacceptable surrender. Fairly uniformly, this rhetorical framing is put forward by a majority of countries, and no clear alternative framing is presented. Historical resonances of the framing and possible future developments are considered.
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