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Peer reviewedGrichting, Wolfgang L.; Barber, James G. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1988
Asked Australian university students (N=294) to provide extensive information concerning their support for actual and hypothetical social control policies against drug abuse immediately prior to their participation in the first phase of the Drug Offensive program which seeks to reduce or eliminate drug abuse. Students will be questioned again to…
Descriptors: College Students, Drug Abuse, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGrichting, Wolfgang L.; Barber, James G. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1990
Proposed that perception of relative danger of various drugs is crucial mediator of support people give to social control policies. Interviewed approximately 540 people, requesting that respondents assess danger level of 13 different drugs and indicate degree of support for some social control items. Found that considerable proportion of total…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Foreign Countries, Public Opinion, Public Policy
