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Journal Article

Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Disability Insurance (DI), and Substance Abusers — Jan 1, 1999

The authors discuss the effects of the legislation on treatment participation, financing, and availability, and the legislation's impact on individuals with dual mental health and substance abuse problems.

Research Brief

The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention: Clarifying a Cloudy Issue — Jan 1, 1999

The United States has for some time now been spending tens of billions of dollars a year in an attempt to control the trafficking and use of illicit drugs; most of those dollars have been used to support stricter enforcement.

Report

What We Do and Don’t Know About the Likely Effects of Decriminalization and Legalization: A Brief Summary — Jan 1, 1999

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the House Committee on Government Reform Tuesday, on July 13, 1999.

Report

Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Other Federal Enforcement Programs — Jan 1, 1999

Testimony presented to the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 29, 1999.

Report

Effects of Substance Abuse Parity in Private Insurance Plans Under Managed Care — Jan 1, 1999

Testimony presented Submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources on October 21, 1999.

Journal Article

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Benefits in Carve-Out Plans and the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 — Jan 1, 1998

The authors analyze the benefit designs of 4,000 current behavioral health carve-out plans and contrast them to medical benefits.

Journal Article

Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies — Jan 1, 1998

Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies

Journal Article

Drug Control — Jan 1, 1998

A large fraction of adolescents experiment with illicit drugs. Most do no more than experiment, but enough go on to consume them frequently that drug use and selling, as well as drug control itself, have become a major source of harm to the nation.

Research Brief

Improving Block Grant Allocation Formulas: More Refined Measures Would Shift Substance Abuse Funds to Smaller, More Rural States — Jan 1, 1998

Reports that the adoption of empirically derived measures of the need for services and refined measures of their costs would substantially shift block grant funds for substance abuse to smaller, more rural states.

Report

Tobacco Control Laws: Implementation and Enforcement — Jan 1, 1997

In this study, the authors examined the process by which anti-tobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and 19 localities.

Report

Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grant Allotment Formula — Jan 1, 1997

In 1992, Congress revised the formula that the federal government uses for distributing Block Grants to the states to provide substance abuse and mental health services.

Report

Snow Job? The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking — Jan 1, 1996

This book examines source country control policies -- policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America -- and their limitations.

Journal Article

A game on urban drug policy — Jan 1, 1996

A game on urban drug policy

Research Brief

Can the Military Help Prevent Drug Use Among Youth? — Jan 1, 1995

Illegal drug use is a major problem confronting the United States today, and the Congress directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish pilot outreach programs designed to reduce drug use among youth.

Report

Preventing Drug Use Among Youth Through Community Outreach: The Military's Pilot Programs — Jan 1, 1994

Congress directed the military to establish pilot community outreach programs to reduce the demand for illegal drugs among youth. This report examined the potential suitability of the military for such roles.

Journal Article

Detecting prenatal substance exposure : an exploratory analysis and policy discussion — Jan 1, 1993

Detecting prenatal substance exposure : an exploratory analysis and policy discussion

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M.P.H., University of Michigan; B.S., Ohio State University

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Susan S. Everingham

Director, Pittsburgh Office; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
M.A. in applied mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in mathematics and biology, Williams College

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B.S. in agricultural economics, Cornell University; Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, UC Berkeley; M.S. in agricultural and resource economics, UC Berkeley

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