"The Regulation of Drugs: Medical and Heath Models"

FAIN: RH-*0452-79

Institute of Society, Ethics, and Life Sciences (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706)
Willard Gaylin (Project Director: November 1978 to October 1990)

A study of the distinction between socially acceptable uses of drugs and socially unacceptable uses of drugs.

To test the hypothesis that present policies for the classification and control of drugs are grounded upon the traditional distinction between bringing an individual's physical condition or behavior to normal and rendering optimal the individual's state or capacities.