TY - JOUR
T1 - Drug abuse social policy in the United states and israel
T2 - A comparative sociological perspective
AU - Ben-Yehuda, Nachman
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - The United States and Israel have implemented the same social policy toward drug abuse: a supply/demand reduction model aimed at minimizing illicit drug use. The paper examines the results of this social policy in both countries, concluding that this social policy achieved a relative success in Israel, while relatively failing to achieve its explicit goal in the United States. The sociological nature of the drug abuse problem is analyzed, indicating that this problem is most efficaciously viewed as a moral-ideological one, and not as it has been: a technical-medical problem. Once the sociological nature of drug abuse is made clear, an explanation for the differential success of the supply/demand reduction model is offered. The explanation focuses on the different cultural matrices of the two societies, as well as on more technical differences such as borders and the army draft.
AB - The United States and Israel have implemented the same social policy toward drug abuse: a supply/demand reduction model aimed at minimizing illicit drug use. The paper examines the results of this social policy in both countries, concluding that this social policy achieved a relative success in Israel, while relatively failing to achieve its explicit goal in the United States. The sociological nature of the drug abuse problem is analyzed, indicating that this problem is most efficaciously viewed as a moral-ideological one, and not as it has been: a technical-medical problem. Once the sociological nature of drug abuse is made clear, an explanation for the differential success of the supply/demand reduction model is offered. The explanation focuses on the different cultural matrices of the two societies, as well as on more technical differences such as borders and the army draft.
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U2 - 10.3109/10826088709027411
DO - 10.3109/10826088709027411
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C2 - 3549585
AN - SCOPUS:84907120849
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 22
SP - 17
EP - 45
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 1
ER -