Providing legally prescribed heroin and/or substitute opiates, including methadone, for heroin addicts. This provision has proven effective in several other nations.
Encouraging primary care physicians and other health-care providers to screen more carefully for substance abuse.
Basing drug sentencing less on the quantity of illegal drugs sold and more on the level of violence in which some drug sellers engage.
Abandoning DARE. According to Kleiman et al. (2011, p. 201), [7] “the continued dominance in school-based drug education of DARE—a program that has never been shown to actually reduce drug use—is a scandal.” They instead recommend school-based programs that help children develop self-control and prosocial behavior, as these programs have also been shown to reduce children’s subsequent drug use.
Following the psychological principle of operant conditioning by providing drug addicts small cash payments for clean drug tests, as these rewards have been shown to be effective.
