The emergence of Australia's national campaign against drug abuse: a case-study

Title: The emergence of Australia's national campaign against drug abuse: a case-study
Creator: Bennett, Cary
Relation: Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 32, Issue 3, p. 309-321
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802294018
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
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.
Subject: national drug campaign; drug control; drug trafficking; National Campaign against Drug Abuse (NCADA); New South Wales
Identifier: uon:5369
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43248
Identifier: ISSN:1444-3058
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