Wolfson M, Hourigan M
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA.
Addiction. 1997 Sep;92(9):1159-64.
This paper describes how widespread legal changes appear to have affected law enforcement practices concerning youth tobacco and alcohol use in the United States. We argue that the threat of criminalization was seldom addressed in scientific and public policy discussions of the drinking age, and only sporadically addressed in discussions of measures to regulate youth access to tobacco. We argue that unintended consequences are an important ethical issue for professionals involved in advocating, developing, implementing and evaluating public policy concerning substance abuse.
本文描述了广泛的法律变革似乎如何影响了美国在青少年烟草和酒精使用方面的执法实践。我们认为，在关于饮酒年龄的科学和公共政策讨论中，很少涉及刑事定罪的威胁，而在关于规范青少年获取烟草措施的讨论中，只是偶尔涉及。我们认为，意外后果对于参与倡导、制定、实施和评估有关药物滥用的公共政策的专业人员来说是一个重要的伦理问题。
