Winick C
City University of New York.
Milbank Q. 1991;69(3):437-59.
A body of research conducted over several decades has established that a considerable proportion of regular users of heroin, cocaine, and other psychoactive drugs continue to function effectively at work and in other areas of social life. Yet American policy has been predicated on assumptions of a universal course of drug use leading to dependency and dysfunctional behavior. A rational drug policy would be shaped in light of a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between drug use and socially adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
几十年来进行的一系列研究表明，相当一部分经常使用海洛因、可卡因和其他精神活性药物的人在工作和社会生活的其他领域仍能有效发挥作用。然而，美国的政策一直基于一种普遍的假设，即吸毒会导致依赖和功能失调行为。合理的毒品政策应基于对吸毒与社会适应性和适应不良行为之间关系的更细致入微的理解而制定。
