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ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2018

Post-war prevention: Emerging frameworks to prevent drug use after the War on Drugs.

Dan Werb

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Article in The International journal on drug policy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Dan WerbDivision of Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, United States; Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: dwerb@ucsd.edu.
St. Michael's Hospital · CA

Funding

Preventing HIV by modifying the context for injecting initiationDP2DA040256 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WERB, DANIEL M · 2015 to 2015
$2.3M
CIHRNIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA040256
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevention of drug use is one of the primary goals of the War on Drugs. However, despite investment in high-profile interventions such as social marketing campaigns and enforcement-based deterrence, these efforts have generally failed. With the emergence of novel policy frameworks to control and regulate drug use, a window of opportunity exists to test approaches to drug prevention that take into account existing evidence and the rights of individuals who use drugs. Specifically, there is a growing consensus that entry into drug use is a socially-defined event that individuals experience within particular socio-structural contexts. This understanding, coupled with a distinction between the value of preventing problematic drug use rather than all drug use, provides a useful framework within which to develop effective and rights-based approaches to drug prevention.

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Drug and Narcotic ControlCanadaHumansLaw EnforcementPolicy MakingSocial MarketingSubstance-Related Disorders

Identifiers

PMID28734744
PMCPMC6042507
OpenAlexW2738552860

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