WHAT IS THE HARM IN ADDICTION? AUTONOMY, VULNERABILITY, AND THE CASE FOR HARM REDUCTION DRUG POLICY

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 LAW

Cambridge Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI:10.1017/S0008197323000193

M. Doucet, L. Porter

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Abstract

Abstract Successful drugs policy must be driven by thoughtful principle and intergovernmental consensus, not by departmental or legal inertia, nor by public (mis)conceptions about drug use. Perhaps the most pressing choice for drugs policymakers at present is between harm reduction and abstinence approaches to drugs policy. To choose between these two approaches, we need to know addiction's normative status: is having an addiction a misfortune or a harm in its own right, even setting aside knock-on health and wellbeing consequences? We argue that the harm of addiction is driven by poor policies, but that harm is not inevitable.

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上瘾有什么害处?自主性，脆弱性，以及减少危害的毒品政策

成功的毒品政策必须由深思熟虑的原则和政府间共识驱动，而不是由部门或法律惯性驱动，也不是由公众对毒品使用的(错误)观念驱动。也许目前对毒品政策制定者来说，最紧迫的选择是在减少危害和戒断毒品政策之间做出选择。要在这两种方法之间做出选择，我们需要知道成瘾的规范地位:即使不考虑对健康和福祉的连锁影响，上瘾本身是一种不幸还是一种伤害?我们认为，成瘾的危害是由糟糕的政策造成的，但这种危害并非不可避免。

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Cambridge Law Journal LAW-

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