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- Title
A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs.
- Authors
HUGHES, CAITLIN ELIZABETH; STEVENS, ALEX
- Abstract
In this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a 'resounding success' or a 'disastrous failure'. Acknowledging from their own experience the inherent difficulties in studying drug law reform, Caitlin Hughes and Alex Stevens take the central competing claims of the protagonists and consider them against the available data. They remind us of the way all sides of the drug policy debates call upon and alternatively use or misuse 'evidence' to feed into discussions of the worth, efficacy and desirability of different illicit drug policies. In doing so they provide pause for thought for those of us who operate as drug policy researchers and drug policy advocates. S imon L enton Co-editor, Harm Reduction Digest
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; DRUG legalization; DRUGS of abuse -- Social aspects; PORTUGUESE students; HARM reduction; DRUG control; SUBSTANCE abuse
- Publication
Drug & Alcohol Review, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
0959-5236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-3362.2011.00383.x