Addictive form of cocaine reduced in repressive measure (9)

I believe the answer is:

crackdown

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(Other definitions for crackdown that I've seen before include "Firm action" , "getting tough" , "Repressive action" , "Draconian measures" , "Crushing measures" .)

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