Economic Analysis of Prohibition and Harm Reduction

Michael Murtagh

ISBN 10: 3639449266 / ISBN 13: 9783639449266

Published by AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012, 2012

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Neuware -Revision with unchanged content. Prohibitive drug policies have been implemented in varying degrees throughout the world. These policies fail when analyzed from the perspective of law and economics and are in actuality the legislation of dominant morals and prohibition of undesirable behavior. Further, they seem to create the harm that they are charged with reducing, that is, they increase both drug-related crime and health problems to drug users. Methods of harm reduction, on the other hand, are a pragmatic and open-minded investment in human capital that have great potential and a proven success record in reducing addiction, the harmful effects of drugs, and drug-related crime. An analysis of the Polish history of drug legislation and harm reduction efforts shows the potential for success of harm reduction in an environment that has become increasingly prohibitive. This book is addressed to students, legal scholars, law enforcement professionals, economists, harm reduction workers, people who use drugs, and policy makers.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 112 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economic Analysis of Prohibition and Harm Reduction
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639449266
• ISBN 13: 9783639449266
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Revision with unchanged content. Prohibitive drug policies have been implemented in varying degrees through-out the world. These policies fail when analyzed from the perspective of law and economics and are in actuality the legislation of dominant morals and prohibition of undesirable behavior. Further, they seem to create the harm that they are charged with reducing, that is, they increase both drug-related crime and health problems to drug users. Methods of harm reduc-tion, on the other hand, are a pragmatic and open-minded investment in human capital that have great potential and a proven success record in reducing addiction, the harmful effects of drugs, and drug-related crime. An analysis of the Polish history of drug legislation and harm reduction efforts shows the potential for success of harm reduction in an environment that has become increasingly prohibitive. This book is addressed to students, legal scholars, law enforce-ment professionals, economists, harm reduction wor-kers, people who use drugs, and policy makers.

About the Author

received his B.A. in Law and Society from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006 and in 2007 received his L.L.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He currently studies at UC Hastings Law School in San Francisco.