Social Inclusion Research Unit Social and Community 1-12000 The War on Drugs – A War on Drug Users
Social Inclusion Research Unit Social and Community 1-12000 The War on Drugs – A War on Drug Users
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社会包容研究单位 社会和社区 1-12000 毒品战争 – 针对吸毒者的战争
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2013
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Lee Young
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Julian Buchanan;Lee Young
两位作者认为，自上世纪80年代以来，英国的毒品政策在很大程度上是考虑不周、反应迟钝和适得其反的。这些政策非但没有减少吸毒和与毒品有关的犯罪，反而加剧了问题，促进了毒品使用和非法毒品活动可能蓬勃发展的环境。这场“禁毒战争”的后果之一是，它表现为一场“打击吸毒者的战争”，其重点不是发展适当的康复模式，而是预防、禁止和惩罚。根据作者对英国默西塞德郡200名问题吸毒者的定性研究，可以认为，针对吸毒者的战争使这些人遭受了污名化、边缘化和社会排斥的过程，并阻碍了他们中的许多人重新融入更广泛的社会和经济共同体，从而阻止了他们的康复。相反，越来越多的有问题的吸毒者仍然被困在慢性药物复发的循环中。他说，本届政府是在承诺变革的基础上当选的。承诺为21世纪创造一个新的现代英国。。。如果我们能够一劳永逸地打破毒品和犯罪的恶性循环，它可能会更好，因为毒品和犯罪破坏了人们的生活，威胁着社区。。。我们应该为我们的孩子们拿出一个真正富有想象力的解决方案，创造一个更美好的英国。
The authors argue that since the 1980s UK drug policy has largely been ill considered, reactive and counter-productive. Rather than reducing drug taking and drugrelated crime, such policies have exacerbated the problem and contributed towards an environment in which drug use and illegal drug activities are likely to flourish. One of the consequences of this `war on drugs’ is that it manifests itself as a `war on drug users’ with an emphasis not upon the development of appropriate rehabilitative models, but upon prevention, prohibition and punishment. Drawing on the authors’ qualitative research on Merseyside, England involving 200 problem drug users, it will be argued that the war on drug users has subjected these people to a process of stigmatisation, marginalisation and social exclusion, and prevented many of them from recovery by hindering their reintegration into the wider social and economic community. Instead, growing numbers of problematic drug users remain locked into a cycle of chronic drug relapse. ‘This government was elected on a promise of change. A promise to create a new and modern Britain for the 21st century. .. it could be much better if we could break once and for all the vicious cycle of drugs and crime which wrecks lives and threatens communities. .. We owe it to our children to come up with a truly imaginative solution and create the better Britain they