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Regulatory Regime Key in Shaping Impact of Marijuana Legalization — May 11, 2012

Marijuana legalization will be on the ballot in at least two U.S. states in November 2012, and it is the subject of serious debate in a growing number of countries. When it comes to understanding the consequences of legalization, the devil is in the details of how the regulatory regime is designed.

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COMMENTARY

The Marijuana Exception — Apr 20, 2012

Being honest about the uncertainties involved is the price of admission to any serious discussion about marijuana legalization, writes Beau Kilmer.

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REPORT

Evaluating the Implementation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005-2012 — Apr 9, 2012

Illicit drug use continues to be an important public health and safety concern in Europe. An evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005–12 and Action Plans examines the implementation, relevance, and influence of the Strategy and its added value for Member States and at EU level.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Scheduling of Newly Emerging Drugs: A Critical Review of Decisions Over 40 Years — Apr 1, 2012

This study seeks to assess more comprehensively the results of decisions on whether and how to 'schedule' (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) newly emerging drugs.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

What Oregon's Parity Law Can Tell Us About the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and Spending on Substance Abuse Treatment Services — Feb 1, 2012

Oregon's experience suggests that behavioral health insurance parity that places restrictions on how plans manage the benefit may lead to increases in expenditures for alcohol treatment services but is unlikely to lead to increases in spending for other drug abuse treatment services.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs — Jan 1, 2012

How legalizing marijuana would affect consumption and tax revenues will depend on many design choices including tax level, incentives for a continued black market, whether advertising is restricted, and how the regulatory system is designed and adjusted.

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Voluntary After-School Alcohol and Drug Programs for Middle School Youth: If You Build It Right, They Will Come — Jan 1, 2012

This study describes CHOICE, a voluntary after-school program which targeted AOD use among middle school students.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy Is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It? Melding Disciplines and Methods to Advance International Drug-Control Policy — Jan 1, 2012

REPORT

The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations — Oct 25, 2011

Violent drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico produce, transship, and deliver into the U.S. tens of billions of dollars worth of narcotics annually. A Delphi exercise offers an assessment of the security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing research on urban unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform.

PROJECT

Analyzing the Illicit Drug Market in the EU — Sep 19, 2011

To further analyze Europe's illicit drug market and the EU's responses to it, DPRC and RAND Europe are teaming with European partners to expand their original 2009 research on the global drug market.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Myths of the Mote — Aug 31, 2011

Having a greater knowledge of the amount of marijuana consumed and produced in each country will sustain substantially informed debates both sides of the border.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mitos De La Mota — Aug 31, 2011

Tener un mayor conocimiento sobre la cantidad de marihuana consumida y producida en cada país permitirá sostener debates sustancialmente informados a ambos lados de la frontera.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — Aug 31, 2011

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

NEWS RELEASE

Latin American Cocaine Trade Persists Despite Gains Made by U.S. Efforts — Jun 15, 2011

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

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Latin American Cocaine Trade Persists Despite Gains Made by U.S. Efforts — Jun 15, 2011

Efforts by the United States to combat Latin American cocaine smugglers have disrupted drug supplies and captured key cartel leaders, but they have not significantly reduced the region's overall narcotics trade.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity — May 31, 2011

More-popular middle school students are more likely to be cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana users, as well as past-month drinkers, suggesting that popularity is a risk factor for substance abuse.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment — May 31, 2011

Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Heterogeneity in the Composition of Marijuana Seized in California — Jan 31, 2011

The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.

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The impact of buprenorphine on treatment of opioid dependence in a medicaid population: Recent service utilization trends in the use of buprenorphine and methadone — Jan 1, 2011

Using administrative data from the largest Medicaid managed behavioral health organization in a large mid-Atlantic state and multivariate regression, this article examines rates and predictors of opioid agonist use and treatment setting for 14,386 new opioid dependence treatment episodes during 2007–2009.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bringing Perspective to Illicit Markets: Estimating the Size of the U.S. Marijuana Market — Jan 1, 2011

The authors review two general approaches to drug market estimation--supply-side and demand-side--before turning to a more specific analysis of studies that measure the size of the U.S. marijuana market.

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