drug policy

collocation in English

meaningsofdrugandpolicy

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drug
noun[C]
uk
/drʌɡ/us
/drʌɡ/
any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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(Definition ofdrugandpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Identifying reliable markers of chloroquine resistance is important to inform both individual malaria treatment and localdrugpolicy.
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The probability of effective managed entry was estimated as the proportion of respondents that felt the nationaldrugpolicy, managed entry, was a success.
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However, changes indrugpolicydo not track changes in minority populations.
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The relationship between national health insurance anddrugpolicyis not simple, and it is not deterministic.
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Although a major component ofdrugpolicy, the treatment system was weakened by bureaucratic isolation, inadequate capacity and restrictive public benefits.
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Stressing the impact of broader health policy legacies is not to deny that other factors have influenced changes indrugpolicy.
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The evidence suggests that the public health approach todrugpolicywas underdeveloped and offered little resistance to the criminal justice agenda or to social welfare retrenchment in the 1980s.
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From a social policy perspective, an understanding of the relationship between drug use and crime is important since it affects both criminal justice anddrugpolicy.
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We are already falling behind other countries in the effectiveness of ourdrugpolicy.
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The availability and careful evaluation of relevant and reliable information are undoubtedly key elements in developing an evidence-baseddrugpolicy.
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Research shows that a link between a particulardrugpolicyline and the drug situation is difficult to establish.
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There is no ideal solution indrugpolicy, we all agree on that.
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It is important whendrugpolicyis co-ordinated, both at government level and by means of the new appointments, that we examine this question.
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We are hampered because there are many people in quite influential posts who are soft towardsdrugpolicy.
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Will it be truly independent and able, therefore, objectively to view the effectiveness ofdrugpolicy?
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Is that evidence of adrugpolicythat is working, or one that is failing?
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We are considering what we can do to co-ordinate alcohol anddrugpolicy, because there is clearly a discordance between drugs, alcohol and how they are treated.
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