Addiction science advocacy: mobilizing political support to influence public policy.
Addiction science advocacy: mobilizing political support to influence public policy.
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成瘾科学倡导：动员政治支持来影响公共政策。
DOI：
10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.11.002
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2014
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Polcin,DouglasL
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Polcin,DouglasL
This paper proposes a new conceptualization of addiction work that makes public policy advocacy central to prevention, treatment, and recovery. The term “addiction science advocacy” is offered as a way to conceptualize what is needed in the addiction field to translate scientific findings into public policy and thereby reduce the harmful consequences of drug problems. Although there are a plethora of evidence based strategies to reduce and prevent harmful consequences associated with drug problems, interventions and their beneficial effects are often neglected, misunderstood, mischaracterized, and underutilized due to destructive social and political influences.This paper suggests that addiction practitioners, researchers, and educators have historically developed professional identities that are too narrow to effectively counteract forces that are destructive to a science based approach to addiction (eg, moralization and criminalization). Addiction science advocacy rejects the contention that treatment and prevention should be politically neutral because that neutrality is increasingly used by others to ignore, dilute, and redefine important findings. There is therefore an urgent need for development of broader professional identities that emphasize influence of public policy as an integral component of one's work. This paper proposes strategies for addiction professionals to influence policies at national and local community levels.
