NCJ Number
128756
Editor(s)
V Berridge
Date Published
1990
Length
298 pages
Annotation
This book presents a survey of British drug research in the 1980s and reports on the 1986-86 Drug Addiction Research Initiative (DARI) and relevant position papers with particular focus on the impact of AIDS on drug research and relation to policy.
Abstract
The introduction explains the context and origins of the DARI, discusses implementation of the DARI, summarizes the DARI report, and examines reasons for the failure of discussion of the DARI. Subsequent chapters focus on detailed presentation of the following topics: DARI report, review of research on services for drug misusers since the 1960s; contribution of research to prevention policy; treatment research and its organizational and design problems; and the relationship of research and policy to law enforcement, crime prevention, and drug issues. Major research areas are identified for future epidemiological research into drug misuse. The economics of drug addiction and the behavioral and pharmacological approaches to the nature of addiction are also discussed. In the final chapter, shifts and changes in British drug legislation are assessed for the mid 1980s.