{"id":4295,"date":"2025-01-14T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/normalising-drug-use-what-does-the-pro-drug-lobby-agenda-affirm-and-reinforce-in-their-ongoing-endeavours-to-normalise-drug-use-4\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:08:09","slug":"normalising-drug-use-what-does-the-pro-drug-lobby-agenda-affirm-and-reinforce-in-their-ongoing-endeavours-to-normalise-drug-use-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/normalising-drug-use-what-does-the-pro-drug-lobby-agenda-affirm-and-reinforce-in-their-ongoing-endeavours-to-normalise-drug-use-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Normalising Drug Use:\u00a0What does the \u2018pro-drug\u2019 lobby agenda affirm and reinforce in their ongoing endeavours to \u2018normalise\u2019 drug use?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4295\" class=\"elementor elementor-4295\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d117bea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d117bea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40132062 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"40132062\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div><p><em><strong>&#8220;Abstract<\/strong>: This brief paper is a synoptic review of key implications of the pro-drug lobby\u2019s decriminalisation reform endeavours. 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