Drug Policy and Trends

Marijuana
commentary
Don't Entangle COVID-19 Relief with Cannabis Legalization
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer
Aug 28, 2020
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cannabis legalization is a multifaceted decision that has implications for health, safety, and social equity. Whether legalization could fund COVID-19 relief should not be a major focus of debates.
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Substance Use Harm Reduction
commentary
Revoking the 'License to Drink': Emerging Evidence on Mandatory Sobriety
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Gregory Midgette
Jun 29, 2020
Institute of Alcohol Studies
After counties in South Dakota implemented a 24/7 sobriety program, repeat arrests for impaired driving decreased in the counties by an average of 12%. North Dakota implemented a similar program and also saw decreases in impaired driving. Can the same results be achieved outside of the Dakotas?
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
blog
A Message from Our President and CEO, America's Wealth Gap, Disinformation: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 5, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on doing more to address systemic inequalities and structural racism, paying the bills during COVID-19, America's growing wealth gap, and more.
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Women's Health
commentary
Do We Know How to Treat Alcohol Misuse in Women?
Kristie L. Gore, Sydne Newberry, Susanne Hempel
Apr 29, 2020
The RAND Blog
Despite the many clinical trials that have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of treatments for alcohol use disorder, we still know little about whether men and women respond differently to treatment. Without knowing whether recommended treatments are effective for women, women are vulnerable to the consequences of alcohol misuse.
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commentary
Beyond Bans: How Cannabis Policy Reform Can Reduce Vaping-Related Illnesses
Amanda Mauri, Rebecca Lee Haffajee
Mar 27, 2020
Health Affairs Blog
Policymakers can wield a multitude of tools to address vaping-related illness. Cannabis policy reform is one option. But policymakers may face challenges in balancing comprehensive regulatory design that promotes product safety with its potential to bolster the illegal and unregulated market.
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Drug Policy and Trends
commentary
Want to Know If a New Drug Crisis Is Growing? Check the Wastewater
Bryce Pardo @brycepardo, Debra Knopman
Mar 26, 2020
Scientific American
Few people foresaw how quickly fentanyl would displace heroin, doubling or tripling opioid overdose deaths in some pockets of the United States from 2013 to 2017. But we could have been warned—if only we'd checked our wastewater.
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Russia
blog
Russian Subversion, Truth Decay, Supervised Drug Consumption Sites: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 28, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on responding to Russian subversion, how the media can help fight Truth Decay, the first supervised drug consumption site in the United States, artificial intelligence, and more.
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Russia
blog
New START, Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, New Tobacco Products: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 21, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on why the United States should extend the New START agreement, Trump's Middle East peace plan, new tobacco products, and more.
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Maternal Health
blog
Infectious Diseases, Zimbabwe, Students with Disabilities: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 14, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the U.S. response to infectious diseases, Zimbabwe after Mugabe, the support for students with disabilities, and more.
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Politics and Government
blog
State of the Union 2020: Insights from RAND
Feb 5, 2020
The final State of the Union address of President Trump's four-year term may be viewed through the lens of the unprecedented circumstances surrounding the evening. But the speech touched on a range of policy challenges that will remain, regardless of how politics play out in 2020.
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Substance Abuse
commentary
Policies That Punish Pregnant Women for Substance Use Don't Help Mother or Baby
Laura J. Faherty @LauraFahertyMD
Jan 28, 2020
Tennessee Justice Center
About half of all U.S. states now have policies that criminalize substance use during pregnancy, consider it grounds for civil commitment, or consider it child abuse or neglect. But research suggests that punitive policies aren't beneficial for infants or their mothers.
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Wildfires
blog
Australia's Fires, Artificial Intelligence, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 24, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on Australia's devastating fires, how artificial intelligence could manipulate the masses, the fentanyl crisis, and more.
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Turkey
blog
U.S.-Turkish Relations, Airports, Opioids: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 17, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the future of the U.S.-Turkish partnership, helping America's commercial airports meet rising demand, the opioid crisis, and more.
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Opioids
essay
Fentanyl: The Most Dangerous Illegal Drug in America
Jan 13, 2020
America's fentanyl crisis is unlike previous drug epidemics and is likely to get worse. Deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have surged from around 3,000 in 2013 to more than 30,000 in 2018. Solving the problem requires innovative approaches and unprecedented resources.
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Health and Wellness Promotion
blog
Preventing the Winter Blues, North Korea, Opioids: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 3, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on how to ward off the winter blues, Kim Jong Un's latest threat, how to spend opioid settlement funds, and more.
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Health Care Costs
blog
Most Popular RAND Research of 2019
Dec 24, 2019
The search for lasting solutions to difficult policy problems starts with facts. Here are the 10 research projects that rand.org readers engaged with the most in 2019.
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Quoted

The United States should find ways to deter Chinese aggression that don't involve making an unambiguous and costly military commitment to Taiwan. Short of such a guarantee, Washington can still make much more explicit that invading Taiwan will entail economic, political, and military consequences for China.

Michael J. Mazarr

Senior Political Scientist

Source: Foreign Affairs

The failure of the jihadists can be judged a victory—albeit a costly one—over an organized effort to instigate violence in the United States. The country, however, has not exhausted its inventory of disaffected young men (and women) who may, in the future, embrace jihadism or other extremist ideologies on offer to convey their discontent.

Brian Michael Jenkins

Senior Adviser to the RAND President

Source: The Hill

China's Evolving Military Strategy and Doctrine

Schools Weren't Prepared for a Crisis Like COVID-19

North Korea Has Agreed to Denuclearization. Trump Could Try to Make It Happen

When It Comes to U.S. Health Systems—Diversity Matters

Reducing the Transmission of COVID-19 in Schools

The Policy Currents Podcast

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Drug Policy and Trends

Don't Entangle COVID-19 Relief with Cannabis Legalization

Revoking the 'License to Drink': Emerging Evidence on Mandatory Sobriety

A Message from Our President and CEO, America's Wealth Gap, Disinformation: RAND Weekly Recap

Do We Know How to Treat Alcohol Misuse in Women?

Beyond Bans: How Cannabis Policy Reform Can Reduce Vaping-Related Illnesses

Want to Know If a New Drug Crisis Is Growing? Check the Wastewater

Russian Subversion, Truth Decay, Supervised Drug Consumption Sites: RAND Weekly Recap

New START, Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, New Tobacco Products: RAND Weekly Recap

Infectious Diseases, Zimbabwe, Students with Disabilities: RAND Weekly Recap

State of the Union 2020: Insights from RAND

Policies That Punish Pregnant Women for Substance Use Don't Help Mother or Baby

Australia's Fires, Artificial Intelligence, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap

U.S.-Turkish Relations, Airports, Opioids: RAND Weekly Recap

Fentanyl: The Most Dangerous Illegal Drug in America

Preventing the Winter Blues, North Korea, Opioids: RAND Weekly Recap

Most Popular RAND Research of 2019

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