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2011
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and ...
Mark A.R. Kleiman +2 more
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While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and ...
Mark A.R. Kleiman +2 more
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What drug policies cost. Estimating government drug policy expenditures
Addiction, 2006ABSTRACTAims Many nations now spend large sums of government money to reduce drug problems. The size and composition of public expenditures aimed at reducing drug use and related problems (a drug budget) is a useful partial description of a nation's drug policy.
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Treatment versus Punishment: Understanding Racial Inequalities in Drug Policy.
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 2019CONTEXT Many observers believe that the policy response to the opioid crisis is less punitive than the crack scare and that the reason is that victims are (stereotypically) white.
Jin Woo Kim, Evan Morgan, B. Nyhan
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Value in Health Regional Issues, 2017
Bulgaria has a mixed public-private health care financing system. Health care is financed mainly from compulsory health insurance contributions and out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments constitute a large share of the total health care expenditure (44.14% in 2014).
Antoniya, Dimova +4 more
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Bulgaria has a mixed public-private health care financing system. Health care is financed mainly from compulsory health insurance contributions and out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments constitute a large share of the total health care expenditure (44.14% in 2014).
Antoniya, Dimova +4 more
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Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 2004
SUMMARY This paper argues that the war on drugs is based on retributive values that are illogical, burden the criminal justice system, and are ineffective in reducing drug-related harm. It examines the relation between political agendas and anti-drug legislation. It demonstrates that anti-drug policy has resulted in dramatically inceased punishment and
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SUMMARY This paper argues that the war on drugs is based on retributive values that are illogical, burden the criminal justice system, and are ineffective in reducing drug-related harm. It examines the relation between political agendas and anti-drug legislation. It demonstrates that anti-drug policy has resulted in dramatically inceased punishment and
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Value in Health Regional Issues, 2017
Slovak law sets clear rules and timelines in the process of approving the price and reimbursement of drugs. During the last decade, the Ministry of Health adopted several cost-containment measures in the price and reimbursement policy. The most effective measures were the implementation of the external referencing of drug prices in 2008 and the ...
Maria, Bucek Psenkova +3 more
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Slovak law sets clear rules and timelines in the process of approving the price and reimbursement of drugs. During the last decade, the Ministry of Health adopted several cost-containment measures in the price and reimbursement policy. The most effective measures were the implementation of the external referencing of drug prices in 2008 and the ...
Maria, Bucek Psenkova +3 more
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1991
This book is written at a time when drug use occupies a particularly prominent position on the UK political agenda, a time also when an indigenous approach to drug control known as the ‘British system’ appears finally to have fallen from grace. The debate over the appropriate direction and content of drugs policy is more heated now than at any time in ...
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This book is written at a time when drug use occupies a particularly prominent position on the UK political agenda, a time also when an indigenous approach to drug control known as the ‘British system’ appears finally to have fallen from grace. The debate over the appropriate direction and content of drugs policy is more heated now than at any time in ...
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HealthcarePapers, 2002
The use of the words "drug" and "policy" together highlights some of the inconsistencies and ironies in healthcare delivery in Canada. Not that the legislators and the government mandarins don't try to create and implement policy, but events (and the pharmaceutical industry) are always one step ahead so the policy-makers find themselves in the role of "
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The use of the words "drug" and "policy" together highlights some of the inconsistencies and ironies in healthcare delivery in Canada. Not that the legislators and the government mandarins don't try to create and implement policy, but events (and the pharmaceutical industry) are always one step ahead so the policy-makers find themselves in the role of "
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Drug Legalization, Harm Reduction, and Drug Policy
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995The current U.S. policy options on drug use are reviewed in the context of the history of drug policy in the United States. A restrictive drug policy is a deterrent to drug use and helps reduce drug-related costs and societal problems. Although legalization or decriminalization of drugs might reduce some of the legal consequences of drug use, increased
R L, DuPont, E A, Voth
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