A Study On The U.S.Drug Control Mode:1945-1973

So far, up to the century-long history of U.S. drug control, the U.S. drug control mode, taking the diplomatic, legal and medical approaches as its three basic contents, was established in their intersecting relations of exclusion and inclusion. Working in concert with the enhanced U.S. strength and hegemony, the U.S. prohibition-oriented drug control philosophy became the core value of the global drug control system, and therefore, was spread worldwide afterwards. In this sense, an inquiry into the causes and effects, together with an analysis concerning the experience and lessons of the U.S. drug control mode, helps have an in-depth and stereoscopic insight into the general state and historic context of existing global drug control system.In this dissertation, the U.S. drug control mode is an all-sided,"Three-in-One" drug control system covering the U.S. diplomatic, legal and medical aspects. Thereinto, drug control diplomacy not only accelerated the occurrence of legal punishment mode in early years, to a certain extend, but also led to establishing the mode of medical treatment for drug addicts in the1970s. On the contrary, the increasingly enriched contents of legal punishment mode, provided legal references for the implementation of drug control diplomatic policy. In the meantime, the medical treatment mode established in the period of "War on Drugs", on one hand, reflected the major changes in American society regarding the understanding toward drug addiction in a new era, and once again demonstrated the dynamic, inter-affected relationships among the three aspects of drug control mode on the other hand.This dissertation, mostly in a time sequence, strives to have a structural sorting from the relevant documents, works and research findings of the predecessors in this academic field under such prerequisite that historic events have reciprocal effects upon the above-mentioned "Three-in-One" drug control mode. Based on the U.S. drug control historical facts, this dissertation, exerts its full strength to explore from multi-academic aspects upon the interdisciplinary contents involved in the development and establishment history of the U.S. drug control mode. In particular, this dissertation adopts a qualitative analysis method with multi-aspect research means of document study, case study, information analysis and interdisciplinary study, and conducts a relatively overall exploration into the contents and characteristics of drug control mode from1945to1973. It re-verifies the akin objectives, common federal status and similar historic beings, and further clarifies the structure of drug control mode including drug control diplomacy, legal punishment and medical treatment for drug addicts, thereby provides an academic platform for having a further overall understanding toward the philosophy of values, substantive characteristics of U.S. drug control mode, and the ongoing "War on Drugs" in the United States as well.