Demand reduction

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Demand reduction is a term used by drug control authorities to refer to efforts aimed at stopping people from seeking drugs. The term entered general use following adoption, by the UN General Assembly, of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Demand Reduction in 1998. Demand reduction typically combines actions: initiatives to reduce the availability of drugs, drugs prevention programmes (mainly, school-based programmes), treatment (e.g. substitution treatment for opiate users). Examples in the United States include D.A.R.E. and the State of Montana's Not Even Once.

[edit] See also

• Supply and demand
• Harm reduction
• War on drugs
• Arguments for and against drug prohibition
• Drug possession
• Recreational drug use
• Drug abuse
• Drug addiction
• Taboo
• Hard and soft drugs

[edit] External links

• EMCDDA European database on demand reduction actions in EU Member States
• UN Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Demand Reduction