A game of urban drug policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12439522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James P Kahan (corresponding author), C Peter Rydell, John K Setear, John Setear |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-290 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-1919 • E-ISSN: 1532-7949 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327949pac0103_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2001128086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
We describe a 3-team seminar game of community governmental policy toward the sale and use of illicit The game takes 3 days to play and simulates roughly 5 years. The players are city and county officials and others active in community drug policy. A key feature of the game is a computer model that tracks the costs and benefits of enforcement, treatment, and prevention programs; the numbers of heavy and light drug users; and the amount of drugs consumed. We report the lessons learned from 4 runs of the game. These runs suggest that one can successfully conduct seminar games of a diffuse and long-term social issue such as local drug policy and that playing the game induces policymakers to pay attention not only to the immediate problems of drug abuse, but also to the surrounding community context. The design of the game is founded on the belief that psychological principles useful in the analysis of peace and conflict can be fruitfully applied to the war on drugs. The lessons learned from the game
Drug · Community Health and Development · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Pharmacology
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |