2013-05-08T18:56:33Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/pacula_rosalie_liccardo.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR769.html 2010-07-06T14:27:00Z 2010-07-06T14:27:00Z

Examines the potential budgetary effect to the state of California of an increase in marijuana use associated with legalization for marijuana on health care costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010518.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA), which became effective in January 1998, is scheduled to expire in September 2001.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080102.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this paper the authors examine the incremental cost of marijuana comorbidity for alcohol, mood and thought diagnoses in hospital settings.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001203.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors examined changes in copayments and coinsurance for covered benefits.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001107.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Limits protect the insurer against high costs, not the individual.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010048.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past 25 years, marijuana has been the most commonly used illicit drug among adolescents. I

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010404.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoking among youths and young adults rose throughout the 1990s. Numerous policies were enacted to try to reverse this trend.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060005.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After experiencing a period of rapid decline between 1986 and 1994, cocaine use is once again on the rise in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030903.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marijuana use remains statistically associated with a 15% reduction in performance on standardized math tests.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19970903.html 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This paper presents a general model of substance use that allows for the possibility of multi-commodity habit formation and can be used to analyse the intertemporal relationship between the consumption of legal and illicit drugs, or the gateway effect. A simple two-drug model is analysed and conditions for the existence of multi-commodity habit formation are examined.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040311.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

School-based drug prevention is a central component of drug control strategies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19991116.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors focus on how individuals with probable risk for mental illness are faring in this robust economy, using data from Health Care for Communities (HCC), a national survey conducted from the fall of 1997 through the end of 1998.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19991105.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

How individuals with probable risk for mental illness are faring in this economy, using data from the HCC survey conducted fall 1997 through 1998.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040924.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Previous research has shown that the recent tightening of college alcohol policies has been effective at reducing college students' drinking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020029.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attention has been given to the debate regarding allowances for medical marijuana use since the 1996 California and Arizona ballot initiatives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20011214.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drug addictions are often viewed as compulsive behaviors, not sensitive to the typical rules of self-discipline or market forces.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20061001.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A recent study of arrest data show that African Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession offences than Whites.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010108.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The use of illicit drugs by American youth rose dramatically during the 1990s. Reducing these trends is an important policy objective.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20061212.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are 400 million retail marijuana purchases in the U.S. each year and the average purchase size is small, about six or seven joints.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT302.html 2008-03-12T18:00:00Z 2008-03-12T18:00:00Z

Testimony presented before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Domestic Policy on March 12, 2008.