کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1075260 1486323 2009 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Understanding post 9/11 drug control policy and politics in Central Asia
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
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Understanding post 9/11 drug control policy and politics in Central Asia
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper exposes contemporary drug policy challenges in Central Asia by focusing on a single point in the history of drug control, in a single region of the global war against drugs and terrorism, and on one agency whose mission is to help make the world safer from crime, drugs and terrorism. By looking closely at the post 9/11 security-oriented donor priorities, I conclude that, in Central Asia, the rhetoric of the taking a more ‘balanced approach’ to drug policy is bankrupt. When enacted by the national law enforcement agencies in the Central Asian republics, the ‘Drug Free’ aspirational goal is driving the HIV epidemic among IDUs. The face-saving ‘containment’ thesis does not reflect the drug situation in this region but rather the failure to adopt an evidence-based approach. The harm reduction agenda continues to face many challenges including resistance to substitution treatment, the harm from drug treatment, from poorly designed drug prevention programmes and from repressive counter-narcotics policies and practices.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy - Volume 20, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 387–391
نویسندگان
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