A Study On The Early U.S. Drug Control Mode

Mainly adopting a qualitative analysis method supplemented with multi-aspect research means of bibliography study, case study, information study and interdisciplinary study, this dissertation strives to have a structural sorting and academic formation from the three aspects of diplomatic, legal and medical strategies that constitute the early U.S. drug control mode from the early 1920s to 1940s, and attempts to explore the experience and lessons existed in the formation and development process of the U.S. drug control system as well, so as to have a thorough and in-depth insight into the history of the U.S. national drug control system that has been lasting for more than one hundred years so far.The U.S. drug control mode is primarily a vast drug control system focused on how to control and eliminate the addictive narcotic drugs for non-medical purposes. Constructed by many domestic and diplomatic factors, it involves not only the factors in the superstructure aspect-the U.S. foreign policy concept, the country's political system, the legislative law-enforcement setup and the federal power structures at all levels, but also the multi-scoped contents of the U.S. social moral philosophy, history, culture, medicine science, health and ideology, etc.History science circles at home and abroad devoting to the research on the U.S. drug control history have mostly focused on the legislation and law-enforcement of the U. S. drug control policy. As far as the study of diplomatic strategy concerned, it is always confined to how drug diplomacy serves for domestic legislation. As for the study on medical treatment strategy, basically, it is classified into the fields of social control or medical science, and little has been done to observe it from a historical perspective and regard it as an indispensable part of the U.S. drug control mode, not to mention scrutinizing their mutual dynamic relationships, their respective independence and historical status. In fact, the academic circles, especially the overseas scholars, have fulfilled their researches on the U.S. drug control history up to a stage with abundant achievements and active academic discussions. Moreover, the study on the history of legal policy has also been developed toward a more in-depth and microscopic field, and the constant decoding of documentary materials has made this possible. Consequently, how to make a breakthrough in this study turns to be a common study subject for the contemporary scholars in the field of drug control history.In the light of the above-mentioned current circumstances of academic research, this dissertation, proceeding from the historical perspective and relying on a qualitative analysis method, initiates the use of the "U.S. drug control mode" for the existing U.S. drug control system. On the basis of abandoning the disadvantages and taking in the advantages, this dissertation restructures a stereoscopic framework of the U.S. drug control mode by embracing the basic contents of the most significant three aspects of drug control foreign policy, drug control legal system and addictive treatment. Under this framework, based on a thorough analysis on the bibliographies and assimilation of the academic fruits from senior scholars, having time as outlines and events as items with a supplement of interdisciplinary and multi-aspect information management methods, this dissertation, strives to have a multi-aspect analysis on individual strategy from both domestic and foreign affairs, so as to have an in-depth insight into the dynamic relationships among those three aspects of the U.S. drug control mode, the experience and lessons drawn from their implementation process on one hand, and to thoroughly reveal the value orientation of the U.S. federal drug control mode on the basis of "Control" concept, and further provide a valuable academic reference for the current ongoing "War on Drugs" in the United States on the other hand.