Thoughts on Drug Policy, Public Health, and Crime: More Support for Decriminalization

Second Thoughts EPIDEMIOLOGISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

Epidemiologists have a long history of influencing and setting policy designed to improve the public’s health. From John Snow’s studies of cholera leading him to remove the Broad Street pump, to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for preventing HIV transmission in the workplace [2], epidemiology has historically served as a basis for public health policy. Results from epidemiologi...

[Discussion of public health and decriminalization of doping].

These reflections aim to increase awareness of the contradictions inherent in the definition of sport and its relation to health and education. Taking the doping issue as a point of departure, we seek to open a general debate regarding the impact of the sports performance industry on public health. Illegal doping practices lead to the health insecurity of many professional and aspiring athletes...

Predictors of Canadian legislators' support for public health policy interventions.

Three Essays on Public Policy and Health

The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime.

In mid-1995, a government effort to reduce the supply of methamphetamine precursors successfully disrupted the methamphetamine market and interrupted a trajectory of increasing usage. The price of methamphetamine tripled and purity declined from 90 percent to 20 percent. Simultaneously, amphetaminerelated hospital and treatment admissions dropped 50 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Methamp...