This is a study on narcotics control. The analysis focuses on public decision - making and legislative processes rather than on the patterns and characteristics of the non-medical consumption. As such, it evolved around the theoretical discussion about the relationship between strategies adopted on narcotics control and the nature of the addiction problem, with specific emphasis upon an understanding of the generation of mechanisms and processes of social control (...)

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