Fighting Drug Abuse in Australia
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 23 (5) , 491-507
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088809039214
Abstract
On the basis of a sample survey (N = 919) of North Queensland considerable evidence is provided that education is the most favored and treatment the least favored intervention strategy in fighting drug abuse. Law enforcement takes an intermediate position. However, there is even more evidence that people do not agree about the definition and meaning of these three intervention mechanisms and that people frequently make contradictory recommendations. There is but limited evidence that these recommendations vary in terms of personal and socioeconomic background.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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