CRIM 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tramadol, Paracetamol, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
10 Nov 2020
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The comprehensive drug abuse prevention and control act (1970) National implementation of legislation that replaced all prior drug legislation. Also referred to as the controlled substances act. It still informs all of what happens at the federal level. States can still enact their own laws. When state legislation conflicts with federal law, federal law has precedents. Originally designed to address a variety of factors (research, rehabilitation, education) When the law passed, it became clear that a priority was enforcement. Divides substances into categories based on: degree of their abuse potential. We want to be protected: clinical usefulness. We as a public have the right to useful drives. Important because this categorization dictates outcomes of use, influences our perceptions of users, and our general conclusions about the dangerousness of a drug. How we categorize a drug depends largely on scientific knowledge. Looks at history and current patterns of abuse. Looks at what risk there is to the public health.
