title: Licit and illicit drug policies: a typology.
abstract: To foster comparison of policy interventions across the various categories of licit and illicit drugs, we develop a typology of policies intended to address drug abuse problems. The principal dimensions of the typology are policy type and intervention channel. While the typology has important limitations, as a mechanism to organize information and stimulate thought it holds the potential to improve understanding of commonalities and distinctions among policies applying to widely discrepant drug problems, both within and across cultures. As such, it could contribute to the development of more effective approaches to grappling with a diverse set of drug policy issues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2029.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Warner
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Citrin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pickett
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Rabe
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wagenaar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stryker
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs