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A 6 page research paper that examines literature relative to how scholars perceive harm reduction strategies versus zero tolerance policies as the basis for drug policy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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represent the position that the global war on drugs can be won and that drug use can be eradicated. Harm reduction policies acknowledge the reality of drug use and seeks
to reduce the harm that it causes rather than focusing exclusively on reducing drug use. The following examination looks at what has been said in literature regarding both approaches.
Zero tolerance The United Nations (UN) has the goal of a "drug-free world" as one of its many health objectives and considers this goal to be obtainable. However, Ethan
Nadelmann offers the opinion that this goal is no more realistic than an "alcohol-free world," which is something no one has mentioned with a "straight face since the repeal of
Prohibition in the United States in 1933" (Nadelmann, 2007, p. 24). In 1998, the UN General Assembly established the goal of "eliminating or significantly reducing the illicit cultivation of the
coca bush, the cannabis plant and the opium poppy" by 2008 (Nadelmann, 2007, p. 24). However, a decade later, the production of the illicit drugs derived from these plants was
approximately the same, but production had become more efficient and both cocaine and heroine were "purer and cheaper" (Nadelmann, 2007, p. 24). Just like abstinence from sex is the
best way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence from drugs is the best policy. However, just as sexual abstinence is a difficult policy to
sell to the public, it is also true that the "desire to alter ones state of consciousness, and to use psychoactive drugs to do so, is nearly universal-and mostly not
a problem" (Nadelmann, 2007, p. 24). Zero tolerance policies do prevent some people from trying drugs, but this approach to policy also dramatically increases the "harms and costs for those
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