Beyond Prevalence

Importance of Estimating Drug Consumption and Expenditures

Jonathan P. Caulkins, Beau Kilmer, Peter Reuter, Gregory Midgette

ResearchPosted on rand.org Apr 22, 2015Published in: Addiction, v. 110, no. 5, May 2015, p. 743-745

Estimates of both the consumption of illegal drugs and user expenditures are important for informing drug policy development.

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  • Copyright: Society for the Study of Addiction
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2015
  • Pages: 3
  • Document Number: EP-50836

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