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Addiction Research and Drug Policy: Will the Twain ever Meet?

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Canada’s traditional reliance on a criminal justice response to the problems of addiction and drug misuse has many of the same features as these describing the American War on Drugs: “A rigid public policy [has been cordoned off] from badly needed ideas and insights of medical and public health professionals who have spent a lifetime studying addiction, its causes and its consequences” (David Lewis, Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown University, retired) (Lewis 1992).

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  1. Professorin fär Soziologie am Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies der University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Patricia G. Erickson PhD

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    Henning Schmidt-Semisch

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    Henner Hess

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Erickson, P. (2014). Addiction Research and Drug Policy: Will the Twain ever Meet?. In: Schmidt-Semisch, H., Hess, H. (eds) Die Sinnprovinz der Kriminalität. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03479-5_4

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