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Socio - Legal Considerations of drug abuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

A. M. Khalifa
A. M. Khalifa*
Affiliation:
National Centre for social and criminological research, Cairo, Egypt
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Drugs have played an important role in man's life for thousands of years. Man has always used “substance” in relation to spiritual or ritualistic experience or for secular reasons in order to change mood, feelings or perception. Only the choice of which substance depended on its availability and the nature of change desired.

The idea, in fact, behind many pharmacologically unrelated substances is one: to induce an artificial sense of satisfaction of some sort, a satisfaction derived from feeling up or down or bringing about a change of perception.

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II. - Legislation Sanitaire et Penale
Information
International Annals of Criminology , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Les Toxicomanies , 1972 , pp. 363 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 International Society for Criminology

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(*) This paper is partially based on a general lecture delivered by the author in the United Nations Fourth International Congress on Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders held in Kyoto, Japan, 1970. Therefore and because of having to submit the paper before deadline, some references are not mentioned; this will be taken care of in the final version.

(1) Tellegan (P.), Non conformity and use of Hashish among university students, Ned. T. Criminolo 1970, 12/3 (162-172).

(1) O'Mally, Adderson, Lazare: Failure of out patient treatment of drug abuse. Amer. J. Psychiat. 1972, 128/7.

(1) Who, Treatment of Drug addicts. Geneva, 1962.

(1) Drug Abuse and Criminality, U.N.O. (E/AC. 57/4).