The effectiveness of social controls in regulating use of legally proscribed drugs is curtailed by the fact that social institutions cannot legitimately enter into the dynamics of controlling use—they can only function to proscribe such use. An analysis of the potential for educational organizations to foster the development of social control techniques is outlined.
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