Since I read your blogs and your comments about legalized all drug abuse( Peter, 2012 and Crystal, 2012), one idea just come to my mind that a good solution should not concern about legal or illegal of substance uses because it cannot give clear direct effect to reduce bad consequence of drugs and cannot convince people to consider drug abuse in the proper way. I have gotten a new idea after I read one article this evening.
According to "Substance Abuse Control: How Do We Measure Success?" (Mann,2010). This paper tries to give a good meaning of successful measurement for drugs abuse control. The future goal for drug abuse should implement multi-strategies for individual, social and national level. It should consider all aspect of substance use, namely manufacturing drug supply, dealer, drug user, courts, police stations, government policy, cell, treatment staffs and rehabilitation system. On one hand, the ultimate goal should be prevention of drug abuse, which can use the word of successful substance abuse control. Because the root cause of drug abuse problem is the poor knowledge, greedy, stubborn, and powerful, the decriminalise drugs cannot give clear solution for all drug abuse issues(Mann,2010) (Mann, 2010).
As I mention earlier that knowledge of drug abusers is the root of drug abuse problem but from Mann, (2010), it is only one of substance uses causes. I agree with this article that the multifaceted programs should be considered than only one program. In addition, the successful result cannot measure only one aspect such as the number of new user decline or the order of big batch drugs abuse is canceled, but it should also consider the declining or the working of drug abuse control program. Whether government is going to use elimination of illegal drugs abuse by law or not, it is an only one component of all program that should be applied for control them.
If we are going to give all drugs legal, we should be sure that this process do work in our context or our country and its consequence should not do any bad phenomena for social and individual level. I meant that these drugs should use under warning, precautious and contraindication or control drug supply by government staffs because it give harm effects to human health and spend a lot of money to solve each cases with high rate of relapse back into drug use and all treatment failures.
The harm reduction program should give the more effective than allow to sell the drug legally but if government consider both program, I can see more synergistic effect to reach the successful of drug problems after consider additional intervention program to each area. Therefore, we can win the drugs war by the holistic approach.
Peter. (2012, April 3) Worse than Heroin: Another reason for legalization Retrieved April 9, 2012 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2012/04/worse-than-heroin-another-reason-for.html?showComment=1333894379772#c3878543887971111086
Crytal. (2012, April 8) No reasons to legalize use of fentanyl
Retrieved April 9, 2012 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-reasons-to-legalize-use-of-fentanyl.html
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