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Social Policy and Drug Research
by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The major idea that the author discussed in this article was how current social policy is aimed at decreasing the use of illegal substances? The question progresses whether research efforts must stick to this policy in order to be considered ethical. If research is to be judged in fair terms, what effect does this have on the selection of research projects to be funded, how the research is done? and how the findings are treated by the public, as represented by both professionals and the media? All these questions need to be taken into considerations while looking at this current social policy.
The author presented to us that we have to understand what is causing this unstable increase in the nonmedical use of drugs that occurred during the seventh and eighth decades of this century. Also the vast increase in the illegal use of psychoactive drugs began in the early 1960s, mostly in educational institutions. This......

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