scholarly journals Understanding Swiss Drug Policy Change and the Introduction of Heroin Maintenance Treatment

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 200-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Khan ◽  
Yasser Khazaal ◽  
Gabriel Thorens ◽  
Daniele Zullino ◽  
Ambros Uchtenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Heroin Maintenance

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING SWISS DRUG POLICY CHANGE AND THE INTRODUCTION OF HEROIN MAINTENANCE TREATMENT

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
Riaz Khan ◽  
Yasser Khazaal ◽  
Gabriel Thorens ◽  
Daniele Zullino ◽  
Ambros Uchtenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Heroin Maintenance

scholarly journals Normalizing effect of heroin maintenance treatment on stress-induced brain connectivity

Brain ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Schmidt ◽  
Marc Walter ◽  
Hana Gerber ◽  
Erich Seifritz ◽  
Rudolf Brenneisen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Brain Connectivity ◽  
Heroin Maintenance

PP076 Research On Drug Policy Change In China Since 2009 New Medical Reform

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Yingfeng Ye ◽  
XiaoHua Ying
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Basic Drug ◽  
Medical Reform ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Drug Policies ◽  
The Government

INTRODUCTION:Drugs are a special commodity for treating diseases and protecting health. There are problems in China's drug research, production, distribution and use (1) thus the national drug policies, including government long-term frameworks and specific policies, play an important role (2). This study summarized and analyzed drug policies in China since the New Medical Reform, to determine patterns of policy change, and aiming to provide theoretical support for drug policy making for the world.METHODS:We downloaded all drug policies issued between April 2009 to December 2016 on State Council, National Development and Reform Commission, National Health and Family Planning Commission, China Food and Drug Administration websites. These documents were combined with academic articles to extract data, which was processed in Microsoft Excel 2013. We also use the Advocacy Coalition Framework to analyze dynamic factors for drug policy change in China.RESULTS:There are 113 drug policies during last 8 years on 4 websites; 76 of them are released by a single ministry. Thirteen, ten, ten, fifteen, seven, fourteen, twenty-six and eighteen policies are issued each year, respectively. Fifteen are classified in long-term frameworks, while the other ninety-eight are specific policies. And fourteen of ninety-eight policies are focusing on basic drug systems, while six are on centralized purchases, nine on public hospitals reform, seven on drug safety, sixteen on prices, fourteen on distribution, twelve on administration, five on traditional medicine, and fifteen on specific drugs.CONCLUSIONS:After the basic drug system was built in 2009, the government started to focus on its distribution over the next 7 years. Policies on centralized purchases are mainly issued in 2010 and 2015, and creative modes have been coming up since 2015. The Government cares not only about production safety, but also safety in sales. Prices were decided by government at first but then follow the market forces. Work focus shifted from the above contents to drug distribution, price, management and traditional medicine after 2012. The peak of policy releases occurred when the great reform took place, such as 2009 when reform began, and in 2012 the Twelfth Five-year plan began. There was a decrease in 2013 due to national leadership change (3). Overall, dynamic factors for policy change mainly are social conditions, public issues and opinions, and feedback on former policy effects.

‘Headlining Heroin’: Policy Change and Reporting the Heroin Problem

2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Watts
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Media

This article explores the role of daily print media in the formation of policies on illicit drug use. It asks how we might think about the rote of the media in making drug policy and how the print media represent the use of heroin. In answering these questions through an examination of the complex process of problem making, the article suggests it may help us to better understand how issues which policy-makers identify as ‘problems’ come to achieve such a status, and how solutions that come to be regarded as ‘realistic’ — or not — reach this point.

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