Drug Policy and Trends: National
All recent, related publications authored by DPRC researchers are listed alphabetically by topic. Lists of previous and current publications (1990-1995, 2001-present) are also available.
Some publications are available in their entirety online as Web pages or downloadable PDFs; some have links to ordering information.
To see a comprehensive list of a DPRC researcher's published work, go to the DPRC Staff page; a link to published research is included after every staff biography. A list of related research projects is also available.
1996-2000
Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920 — 2000
Joseph F. Spillane
Ordering Information (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
The Evolution of Drug Initiation: From Social Networks to Public Markets — 2000
Jonathan P Caulkins
In Engelbert J. Dockner, Richard F. Hartl, Mikulas Luptacik, and Gerhard Sorger (eds.), Optimization, Dynamics, and Economic Analysis--Essays in Honor of Gustav Feichtinger, Physica-Verlag
Ordering Information
Improving Anti-Drug Budgeting — 2000
Patrick Murphy, Lynn E. Davis, Timothy Liston, David Thaler, and Kathi Webb
Optimal Control of Drug Epidemics: Prevent and Treat--But NOT at the Same Time? — 2000
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gernot Tragler, and Gustav Feichtinger
Ordering Information (Management Science)
Challenges in Designing and Analyzing Social Experiments — 1999
Robert M. Bell and Phyllis L. Ellickson
Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Other Federal Enforcement Programs — 1999
Peter Reuter and Susan Everingham
Drug Use Measures: What Are They Really Telling Us? — 1999
Peter Reuter
Ordering Information (National Institute of Justice Journal)
Matching Rhetoric to Dollars: Twenty-Five Years of Federal Drug Strategies and Drug Budgets — 1999
John Carnevale and Patrick Murphy
Perceptions of Drug Court: How Offenders View Ease of Program Completion, Strengths and Weaknesses, and Impact on Their Lives — 1999
Susan Turner, Peter Greenwood, Terry Fain, and Elizabeth Deschenes
Reducing Drug Use by Encouraging Alternative Behaviors — 1999
Andrew R. Morral, Martin Y. Iguchi, and Mark A. Belding
In Stephen T. Higgins and Kenneth Silverman (eds.), Motivating Behavior Change Among Illicit-Drug Abusers: Research on Contingency Management Interventions, American Psychological Association
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What We Do and Don't Know About the Likely Effects of Decriminalization and Legalization: A Brief Summary — 1999
Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Can Difficult-to-Reuse Syringes Reduce the Spread of HIV Among Injection Drug Users? — 1998
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Edward H. Kaplan, Peter Lurie, Thomas O'Connor, and Sung-Ho Ahn
Ordering Information (Interfaces)
Drug Control — 1998
Robert MacCoun and Peter Reuter
In Michael Tonry (ed.), The Handbook of Crime & Punishment, Oxford University Press
Ordering Information
Foreign Demand for Latin American Drugs: The USA and Europe — 1998
Peter Reuter
In Elizabeth Joyce and Carlos Malamud (eds.), America and the Multinational Drug Trade, St. Martin's Press
Ordering Information
Toward a Psychology of Harm Reduction — 1998
Robert J. MacCoun
Ordering Information (American Psychologist)
Coordinating Drug Policy at the State and Federal Levels — 1997
Patrick Murphy
Interpreting Dutch Cannabis Policy: Reasoning by Analogy in the Legalization Debate — 1997
Robert MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Ordering Information (Science)
Is Crack Cheaper Than (Powder) Cocaine? — 1997
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Ordering Information (Addiction)
Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money? — 1997
Jonathan P. Caulkins, C., Peter Rydell, William L. Schwabe, and James Chiesa
Preface and Summary Ordering Information Research Brief
Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grant Allotment Formula — 1997
M. Audrey Burnam
Setting Goals for Drug Policy: Harm Reduction or Use Reduction? — 1997
Jonathan P. Caulkins and Peter Reuter
Ordering Information (Addiction)
Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better? Some Consequences of Ignoring the Unattractive — 1997
Peter Reuter
Ordering Information (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society)
Assessing Alternative Drug Control Regimes — 1996
Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter, and Thomas Schelling
Ordering Information (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management)
Enforcement or Treatment? Modeling the Relative Efficacy of Alternatives for Controlling Cocaine — 1996
C. Peter Rydell, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Susan S. Everingham
Ordering Information (Operations Research)
Examining the Behavioral Assumptions of the National Drug Control Strategy — 1996
Robert J. MacCoun and Jonathan Caulkins
In W.K. Bickel and R.J. DeGrandpre (eds.), Drug Policy and Human Nature: Psychological Perspectives on the Control, Prevention, and Treatment of Illicit Drug Abuse, Plenum Press
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Harm Reduction and Social Policy: Should Addicts Be Paid? — 1996
Peter Reuter and Robert J. MacCoun
Ordering Information (Drug and Alcohol Review)
The Meaning and Utility of Drug Prices — 1996
Jonathan Caulkins and Peter Reuter
Ordering Information (Addiction)
The Psychology of Harm Reduction: Comparing Alternative Strategies for Modifying High-Risk Behaviors — 1996
Robert J. MacCoun
Ordering Information (Wellness Lecture Series)
What Does Mathematical Modeling Tell Us About Harm Reduction? — 1996
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Ordering Information (Drug and Alcohol Review)
What Is Adolescent Alcohol Misuse in the United States According to the Experts? — 1996
Ron D. Hays and Phyllis L. Ellickson
Ordering Information (Alcohol & Alcoholism)
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