کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5120884 1486262 2017 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Seeing through the public health smoke-screen in drug policy
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
دیدن صفحه نمایش دود سیگار در سیاست مواد مخدر
کلمات کلیدی
سیاست مواد مخدر، سلامت عمومی، درمان وابستگی به مواد مخدر، حقوق بشر،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
چکیده انگلیسی

In deliberations on drug policy in United Nations fora, a consensus has emerged that drug use and drug dependence should be treated primarily as public health concerns rather than as crimes. But what some member states mean by “public health approach” merits scrutiny. Some governments that espouse treating people who use drugs as “patients, not criminals” still subject them to prison-like detention in the name of drug-dependence treatment or otherwise do not take measures to provide scientifically sound treatment and humane social support to those who need them. Even drug treatment courts, which the U.S. and other countries hold up as examples of a public health approach to drug dependence, can serve rather to tighten the hold of the criminal justice sector on concerns that should be addressed in the health sector. The political popularity of demonisation of drugs and visibly repressive approaches is an obvious challenge to leadership for truly health-oriented drug control. This commentary offers some thoughts for judging whether a public health approach is worthy of the name and cautions drug policy reformers not to rely on facile commitments to health approaches that are largely rhetorical or that mask policies and activities not in keeping with good public health practise.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy - Volume 43, May 2017, Pages 91-95
نویسندگان
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