https://www.policyforum.net/make-drugs-a-health-issue/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:42:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/make-drugs-a-health-issue/#comment-10823 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:42:23 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7130#comment-10823 Excellent article Richard. I hope you will be bringing this to the table in response to the government’s plan to deal with ICE addiction in India.

]]> https://www.policyforum.net/make-drugs-a-health-issue/#comment-4924 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:20:23 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7130#comment-4924 Excellent article Richard. I hope you will be bringing this to the table in response to the government’s plan to deal with ICE addiction in Australia.

]]> https://www.policyforum.net/make-drugs-a-health-issue/#comment-4820 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:43:45 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7130#comment-4820 What is often missed from articles like this is the fact that prohibition resulted in the prolific emergence of “novel psychoactive substances” to avoid persecution.
These substances are often sold as “legal highs”.
Experience shows that many of them are in fact more harmful then the known previously well researched or traditionally used substances.
Good example is that many Ecstasy tablets no longer contain MDMA which is a relatively harmless substance.
Prohibition of the new substances leads to the introduction of even newer ones. The the story will never end, more and more people will be harmed, often enough with fatal consequences.

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