Evidence-based drug policy: it starts with good evidence and ends with policy reform.
Evidence-based drug policy: it starts with good evidence and ends with policy reform.
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循证毒品政策:始于良好证据,终于政策改革。
DOI:
10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.10.005
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
Wood,E
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作者:
Nosyk,B;Wood,E
This issue of the International Journal on Drug Policy highlights a wide breadth of topics related to the worldwide production in and trade of illicit drugs. From a methodological standpoint, this collection of articles covers two key thematic areas: the qualitative characterization of aspects of the drug trade and/or drug policy in a given region, and the measurement of drug production, consumption and subsequent economic impacts.These thematic areas are intrinsically linked: good quantitative research needs to be informed by good qualitative research, particularly in circumstances where the illegality of drug markets creates such a high level of complexity and uncertainty. This factor is eloquently illustrated in articles discussing the personal and structural barriers to exiting the illicit drug trade (Campbell and Hansen, 2012) and the various forces that dictate the scale of local cannabis production for individual growers (Hammersvik, Sandberg and Pedersen, 2012). Without such contextual knowledge, policies to, for example, encourage exit from the illicit drug trade and limit the scale of cannabis production would be ill-informed and subsequent evaluations incomplete.