NCJ Number
127367
Journal
Journal of Drug Issues Volume: 20 Issue: 4 Dated: (Fall 1990) Pages: 689-700
Date Published
1990
Length
12 pages
Annotation
Inability to acknowledge the failure of the War on Drugs and repeated escalations of the war in spite of clear evidence of futility are analyzed from the perspective of research in cognitive and social psychology.
Abstract
Research into individual and group processes that foster flawed decisions and persistence in doomed ventures is presented to help explain how current drug policy developed and to warn reformers that they too could become trapped in inflexible, unworkable approaches to drug problems. 3 notes and 37 references (Author abstract)