@article{Jensen_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={DRUG POLICY}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/drug-policy}, abstractNote={The objectives of this course are: 1. To learn the physiological and behavioral effects of a variety of illicit drugs and selected licit drugs commonly used for illicit purposes. 2. To learn about the methods of estimating the incidence and prevalence of drug use and abuse. 3. To gain a thorough understanding of the social construction of harms related to illicit drugs. 4. To gain an understanding of the influence of socially constructed perceptions of illicit drugs and the problems associated with them on drug policy in the U.S.A. 5. To gain an understanding of selected causal theories of drug use and abuse. 6. To gain an understanding of contemporary drug policy in the United States of America. 7. To gain an understanding of the outcomes of contemporary U.S. drug policies. 8. To gain an understanding of the principles of the harm reduction and public health approaches to drug policy. 9. To learn about alternative drug policies being used in other nations and their outcomes. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Jensen, Eric}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }