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Refocusing metrics: can the sustainable development goals help break the ‘metrics trap’ and modernise international drug control policy?

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Drugs and Alcohol Today, Volume: 17, Issue: 2

Swansea University Author: David Bewley-Taylor Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/DAT-12-2016-0033

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Purpose – This article aims to examine the extent to which the dominant metrics currentlyused to measure the success of the UN based global drug prohibition regime are in manyways inadequate and consequently contribute to systemic inertia. Within this context, it seeksto explore the potential of exp...

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ISSN: 1745-9265
Published: 2017
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