Commentary
If ever there was a scheme that might reduce excessive alcohol consumption while causing minimal social and economic disruption, a minimum price on alcohol may be it, writes Lila Rabinovich.
Report
Testimony presented before the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee on October 28, 2009.
Research Brief
California parolees' health care, mental health care, and drug- and alcohol-treatment needs, as well as where parolees go when they return to counties, place significant demands on counties' safety-net resources and on their ability meet those needs.
Journal Article
The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of older adults with employer-provided drug coverage from 1997 to 2002 from 31 different health plans. For all study conditions, higher copayments were associated with delayed initiation of therapy.
Report
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.
Past Event
A RAND Policy Forum on Drug Policy in 2009: Are We Still a Nation at War? will convene a panel of RAND experts and other distinguished voices in the drug policy debate to examine the results of our nation's "war on drugs" and to discuss promising new directions for drug policy.
Research Brief
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.
News Release
The economic cost of methamphetamine use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005, including the burden of addiction, premature death, drug treatment and many other aspects of the drug.
Report
The first national estimate of the economic cost of methamphetamine considers burdens of addiction, early death, drug treatment, lost productivity, crime and criminal justice, health care, production and environmental hazards, and child endangerment.
Journal Article
The authors examine whether neighborhood alcohol outlet density is associated with reduced social capital and whether this relationship is mediated by perceived neighborhood safety.
Journal Article
In mid-1995, a government effort to reduce the supply of methamphetamine precursors successfully disrupted the methamphetamine market and interrupted a trajectory of increasing usage.
Research Brief
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Institute of Medicine's quality improvement framework for behavioral health care and highlights current quality improvement projects that incorporate the framework's recommendations.
Report
Testimony presented before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Domestic Policy on March 12, 2008.
Journal Article
Over the past two decades, studies have provided evidence for the strong link between substance use (SU) and delinquency among adolescents.
Journal Article
Tobacco billboards were outlawed in 1999, but over 25% of tobacco ads in Louisiana do not comply. In Los Angeles, 37% of alcohol ads and 25% of tobacco ads were within 500 feet of a school, playground, or church, in violation of advertisers pledges.
Journal Article
The intent of parity regulation is to equalize private insurance coverage for mental and physical illness (an equity concern) and to eliminate wasteful forms of competition due to adverse selection (an efficiency concern). In 2001, a presidential directive requiring comprehensive parity was implemented in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. In this study, the authors examine how health plans responded to the parity directive.
Journal Article
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program implemented full mental health and substance abuse parity in January 2001.
Journal Article
Treatment of drug addiction has been the subject of substantial research and has been found to be both effective and cost-effective.
Journal Article
Examined the possible synergistic effect of exposure to the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and a classroom-based drug prevention curriculum among 9th grade students participating in a randomized trial of ALERT Plus.
Research Brief
The RAND Drug Policy Research Center has published an Occasional Paper offering a concise, accessible, objective view of where the United States has been, now stands, and might go in the future in its long "war on drugs." The authors assess the succe...
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