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Project Description

ImpacTeen State Illicit Drug Database

PI: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Ph.D.
Funded by: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Project Dates: September 2000 – February 2004

ImpacTeen: A Policy Research Partnership to Reduce Youth Substance Use, is a Robert Wood Johnson-funded project to evaluate the relative effectiveness of specific prevention programs and policy initiatives in reduce youth substance use and abuse. Directed by Economist Frank Chaloupka, Ph.D. of the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Research and Policy Centers (UIC), ImpacTeen is an interdisciplinary partnership of nationally recognized substance abuse experts involving researchers from community health, economics, etiology, epidemiology, law, marketing, political science, public health, public policy, psychology, sociology, survey research, and other fields. Funded initially for five years beginning in November, 1997, the initiative was recently renewed for three more years of funding.

A team of researchers from Andrews University, The MayaTech Corporation and RAND was awarded a subcontract from the ImpacTeen project at the University of Illinois, Chicago to build a state-level illicit drug surveillance system. The Andrews-MayaTech-RAND team was charged with the task of developing, building and maintaining a state-level surveillance system with two distinct components. The first component tracked legislation in all fifty states and the District of Columbia pertaining to illicit drugs. The second component drew upon existing data sources that provide information on the implementation and enforcement of these laws as well as the social, political and economic environment in which they take place. The goal was to create a comprehensive state level database that can be used by policymakers and analysts to evaluate the impact of particular state and local policies and/or proposals on youth illicit drug use and its harmful consequences.

Related Publications

“Cocaine Use in our Colleges”

Williams J; Pacula R.L.; Chaloupka FJ; and H. Wechsler

Journal of Substance Use and Misuse. Forthcoming.

“Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements or Substitutes?” - 2004

Williams J; Pacula R.L; Chaloupka, F.J; and H. Wechsler

Health Economics, 13(9): 825-843.

Illicit Drug Policies: Selected Laws from the 50 States - 2002

ImpacTeen Illicit Drug Team (Chriqui, J.F.; Pacula, R.L.; McBride, D.C.; Reichmann D.A.; VanderWaal C.J. and Y. Terry-McElrath)

Full Document (Andrews University)

“State Medical Marijuana Laws: Understanding the Laws and their Limitations” - 2002

Pacula R.L.; Chriqui J.F.; Reichman D.A.; and Terry-McElrath Y.

Journal of Public Health Policy. 23(4): 413-439.

“Marijuana and Youth” - 2001

Pacula, R.L.; Grossman, M; Chaloupka, F.J.; P. O’Malley; L.D. Johnston and M.C. Farrelly.

In Jonathan Gruber (Ed.), Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (pp. 193-191).

“Economics and Anti-Health Behavior: The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse” - 2000

Chaloupka, F.J. and R.L. Pacula.

In W. Bickel and R. Vuchinich (Eds), Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economic . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates (pp. 89-111).