Santiago-Negrón Salvador, Albizu-García Carmen E
Universidad Carlos Albizu, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
P R Health Sci J. 2003 Mar;22(1):49-59.
Puerto Rico has followed the United States in adopting drug policy sustained on a criminal justice model that limits the opportunities to address problematic drug use through public health interventions. Demand for illegal drugs is controlled by criminalizing drug use and applying jail sentences for drug offenses. These strategies marginalize drug users and reduce opportunities to minimize health risks applying public health measures. Production and sale of illegal drugs is criminalized with the intent of dissuading drug use, with adverse unintended health effects that impact both drug users and non-drug users in the community. The present work reviews the assumptions of the punitive prohibitionist model and its outcomes that present themselves as public health challenges in Puerto Rico. It also presents those principles that should sustain pragmatic drug policy to address problematic drug use from a health and social perspective.
波多黎各效仿美国，采用了基于刑事司法模式的毒品政策，这种政策限制了通过公共卫生干预措施解决药物使用问题的机会。通过将药物使用定为犯罪并对毒品犯罪判处监禁来控制对非法药物的需求。这些策略将吸毒者边缘化，并减少了采用公共卫生措施将健康风险降至最低的机会。非法药物的生产和销售被定为犯罪，目的是劝阻药物使用，但产生了意外的不良健康影响，对社区中的吸毒者和非吸毒者都有影响。本研究回顾了惩罚性禁止主义模式的假设及其在波多黎各呈现为公共卫生挑战的结果。它还提出了那些应支撑务实毒品政策的原则，以便从健康和社会角度解决药物使用问题。
