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RAND Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades At World-Changing Research
From anticipating the Space Age in the 1940s to studying gun policy and COVID-19 responses in the 2020s, RAND is celebrating 75 years of research that has made a difference.
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May 8, 2023

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Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?
Data lags and the elimination of the ADAM program complicate estimates of U.S. cocaine consumption. New users who haven't yet developed cocaine dependence are also a factor. It may be prudent to start planning for an increase in heavy use even before all of the evidence is in.
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Apr 28, 2017
Brookings - Up Front
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Gregory Midgette
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Hard Drugs Demand Solid Understanding
Due to budget concerns the federal government just shut down a critical data source that provides insights into abuse, dependence on, and spending on heroin and other hard drugs like crack and methamphetamine.
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Mar 10, 2014
USA Today
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins
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Prime Numbers: Doped
The illicit drug trade is the ultimate value-added chain. As cocaine and heroin make their perilous journeys from the fields of Colombia and Afghanistan to markets in U.S. and European cities, each border crossed and each trafficker involved adds dollars to a price, write Beau Kilmer And Peter Reuter.
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Oct 19, 2009
Foreign Policy
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Peter Reuter

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Cocaine

RAND Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades At World-Changing Research

Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?

Hard Drugs Demand Solid Understanding

Prime Numbers: Doped

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