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Title: The emergence of Australia's national campaign against drug abuse: a case-study
Author/Creator: Bennett, Cary
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: This article questions conceptualisations and attributions that record the emergence of Australia’s first national drug campaign as a necessary and inevitable governmental response to an escalating social problem around drug abuse. I argue that the proposal for, and subsequent establishment of, the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NCADA) in 1984-85 was contingent upon historically specific discourses and events in the lead up to the 1984 federal election that were not primarily or solely concerned with drug use or ‘abuse’ (as suggested by the campaign’s title), but with perceptions of crime and governmental corruption, and the social and political anxiety these were generating. As such the NCADA was more an expression of political rather than health concerns.
Relation: Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 32, Issue 3, p. 309-321
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802294018
Date: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Keyword(s): national drug campaign; drug control; drug trafficking; National Campaign against Drug Abuse (NCADA); New South Wales
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43248
Identifier: ISSN:1444-3058

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