International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 6-15 , January 2012

If supply-oriented drug policy is broken, can harm reduction help fix it? Melding disciplines and methods to advance international drug-control policy

  • Victoria A. Greenfield

      Affiliations

    • Department of Economics, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 410 293 6896; fax: +1 410 293 6899.
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  • Letizia Paoli

      Affiliations

    • LINC, Leuven Institute of Criminology, K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law, Hooverplein 10-11, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
    • Tel: +32 016 325274.

Received 22 October 2010 ,Revised 1 April 2011 ,Accepted 26 April 2011.

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☆ The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors alone.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.04.007

International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 6-15 , January 2012

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