Repressive drug policy follows the illiberal preventive approach which gained acceptance in the 1968 as directed against the 'drugs culture' of the antiauthoritarian generation. The illiberal preventive approach is explicitly directed at 'dangerous' attitudes and a criminogenic environment. This approach ignores the ineffectiveness of prevention by criminal isation. In my opinion, the days of this strategy are over. The principle of help over punishment in the case of drug addiction becomis more and more acceptable.
Most drug addiction is brought about through one's own fault.
However, this'fault'might be seen as deriving from a kind of error of conduct. In fact, drug addiction reduces or even eliminates any deed-associated guilt. Even if they wanted to, addicts are not able to comply with the ban of drug consumption at the present time nor in the near future without the fear of relapse. Any strict dogma of abstinence is therefore utterly unrealistic. Someone who has created a certain internal reality through drug abuse, behaves at a psychologically deterministic level and is, at best, only able to change this situation on a long-term basis.