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RAND work on public safety issues ranges from policing and prisons to violent crime and the illegal drug trade, as well as homeland security and emergency preparedness. RAND delivers research that reflects our core values of quality and objectivity and helps inform policy debates that are often riddled with arguments driven not by evidence but by emotion and ideology.

Research conducted by: RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment; RAND Europe; Safety and Justice Program; Center on Quality Policing; Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace; RAND Drug Policy Research Center

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Heterogeneity in the Composition of Marijuana Seized in California — Feb 1, 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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A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative — Jan 17, 2011

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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Behavioral Health and Social Normative Influence: Correlates of Concurrent Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexually-Active Homeless Men — Jan 1, 2011

Sexual concurrency poses significant HIV/STI transmission risk.

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Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

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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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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.

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The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use — Jan 1, 2011

This study evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy–5 (MET/CBT-5) when delivered in community practice settings relative to standard community-based adolescent treatment.

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Art Sales as Cultural Intelligence: Analysis of the Auction Market for African Tribal Art — Jan 1, 2011

This paper examines auction sales of African tribal art for the continent as a whole and by individual nations of origin.

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Text Analysis of After Action Reports to Support Improved Emergency Response Planning — Jan 1, 2011

This study combines a text analysis of 70 after action reports (AARs) with a failure mode effects and consequences analysis (FMECA). This approach provides a mechanism to connect the AAR process with efforts to improve emergency response planning.

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Prescription Medication Abuse and Illegitimate Internet-Based Pharmacies — Jan 1, 2011

Abuse of prescription drugs represents a growing problem. This article discusses the challenge to federal and private efforts to combat the problem and outlines strategies for physicians to recognize and minimize the effects of the availability of these medications on the Internet.

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The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking — Jan 1, 2011

We assessed the effect of Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spending on smoking disparities in Arkansas, which distinguished itself from other states by investing all of its MSA funds in health-related programs.

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Collecting Cultural Intelligence: The Tactical Value of Cultural Property — Jan 1, 2011

This paper defines a framework for the collection of cultural intelligence as a fundamental asset in countering threats to cultural security.

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An Analysis of Applicants Presenting to a Medical Marijuana Specialty Practice in California — Jan 1, 2011

This study provides descriptive information about 1,655 applicants in California who sought a physician's recommendation for medical marijuana, the conditions for which they sought treatment, and the diagnoses made by the physicians.

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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? — Jan 1, 2011

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.

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Intervening in Gun Markets: An Experiment to Assess the Impact of Targeted Gun-Law Messaging — Jan 1, 2011

The objective of this study was to assess whether targeting new gun buyers with a public safety message aimed at improving gun law awareness can modify gun purchasers' behaviors.

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Training Addiction Counselors to Implement CBT for Depression — Jan 1, 2011

Training addiction counselors to deliver group therapy can bring effective mental health treatment to depressed individuals who are also substance abusers.

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Encryption and the Loss of Patient Data — Jan 1, 2011

Encryption is seen as a way to prevent malicious use of patient data, but there is no empirical evidence that it does.

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The Social Context of Homeless Men's Substance Use — Jan 1, 2011

Substance use among homeless men is associated with health problems and riskier personal networks. These findings underscore the importance of interventions that focus on improving mental health and mitigating the drug-using norms of personal networks.

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Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Previously abstinent smokers who lapse are at risk for increased cigarette cravings and full-blown relapse. The findings have implications for cognitive–behavioral treatments to prevent relapse and medications to help smokers manage cravings.

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Measuring Exposure to Protobacco Marketing and Media: A Field Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment — Jan 1, 2011

College students were exposed to protobacco marketing through multiple channels in a relatively short period: Exposures occurred primarily in the afternoon (42%), on weekends (35%), and at point-of-purchase locations (68%) or in movies/TV (20%), and exposures to Marlboro, Newport, and Camel represented 56% of all exposures combined and 70% of branded exposure.

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Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She serves as codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her research has largely focused on whether state and local public policies are cost-effective and effective…

Greg Ridgeway

Director, RAND Safety and Justice Program

Greg Ridgeway

Greg Ridgeway is director of the RAND Safety and Justice Program and of the RAND Center on Quality Policing, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Ridgeway is charged with managing RAND's portfolio on policing, crime prevention, courts, corrections, and public and occupational…

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