2012-05-10T17:59:44Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/k/kilmer_beau.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/10/19/FP.html 2009-10-19T14:03:00Z 2009-10-19T14:03:00Z

The illicit drug trade is the ultimate value-added chain. As cocaine and heroin make their perilous journeys from the fields of Colombia and Afghanistan to markets in U.S. and European cities, each border crossed and each trafficker involved adds dollars to a price, write Beau Kilmer And Peter Reuter.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR709.html 2009-04-20T16:42:00Z 2009-04-20T16:42:00Z

This report presents a conceptual framework for constructing an estimate of the global cost of drug use. However, we conclude that it is not possible at this time to develop a meaningful comparative estimate of the cost of drug use across countries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR518.html 2008-01-10T01:10:00Z 2008-01-10T01:10:00Z

The U.K. National Audit Office (NAO) commissioned RAND Europe to conduct this review to identify and synthesize international research about the effectiveness of community orders in reducing re-offending.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR704.html 2009-04-20T12:35:00Z 2009-04-20T12:35:00Z

This report provides key findings of the RAND Europe study which assesses how the global market for illicit drugs has developed from 1998 to 2007 and describes worldwide drug policies implemented during that period to address the problem.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR711.html 2009-04-21T10:48:00Z 2009-04-21T10:48:00Z

The report generates country-level consumption and retail expenditure estimates for cannabis, heroin, cocaine, and amphetamine-type substances.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9521.html 2010-03-23T16:25:00Z 2010-03-23T16:25:00Z

To better understand illegal drug markets and supply-reduction efforts in the European Union, data on purity-adjusted prices must be collected. Member states can learn more about supply reduction by changing how they report seizure data.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9438.html 2009-04-08T16:30:00Z 2009-04-08T16:30:00Z

The economic cost of methamphetamine use reached more than an estimated $23 billion in 2005, mostly from the intangible burden that addiction places on dependent users and their premature mortality and from crime and criminal justice costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR125.html 2004-12-21T12:10:00Z 2004-12-21T12:10:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9559.html 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z

Discusses whether legalizing marijuana in California would reduce the revenues of Mexican drug trafficking organizations and related violence.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG720.html 2008-03-26T17:17:00Z 2008-03-26T17:17:00Z

A comprehensive study of the post-deployment health-related needs associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression, and traumatic brain injury among servicemembers returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9543.html 2010-07-01T11:58:00Z 2010-07-01T11:58:00Z

Legalizing marijuana in California would lead to a substantial decline in price, but there is much uncertainty about legalization's effect on public budgets and consumption; even minor changes in assumptions lead to major differences in outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080327.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the ubiquity of drug testing in criminal justice settings, there is little experimental evidence suggesting that testing reduces drug use or engenders pro-social behavior. This paper estimates the effect of parolee drug testing on labor and education outcomes with data from a randomized experiment involving 1,958 young parolees.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090824.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Game theory and other simulations show that, if potential criminal offenders are sufficiently deterrable, increasing the conditional probability of punishment (given violation) can reduce the amount of punishment actually inflicted, by "tipping" a situation from its high-violation equilibrium to its low-violation equilibrium.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091123.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070913.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

User sanctions influence the legal risk for participants in illegal drug markets.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080011.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The focus of this essay is on alcohol use among probationers and parolees, but is also explores use of electronic monitoring technologies in other settings, and for other drugs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030722.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110057.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This study provides descriptive information about 1,655 applicants in California who sought a physician's recommendation for medical marijuana, the conditions for which they sought treatment, and the diagnoses made by the physicians.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110020.html 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT351.html 2010-09-21T09:16:00Z 2010-09-21T09:16:00Z

Testimony presented before the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee and California State Senate Public Safety Committee on September 21, 2010.