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Cocaine

Report

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications

This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.

Jan 1, 2001
Report

Drug Prices and Emergency Department Mentions for Cocaine and Heroin

Examining drug prices and emergency department mentions, the author concludes that fluctuations in prices are an important determinant of adverse health outcomes associated with drugs.

Dec 31, 2000
Commercial Book

Drug War Heresies: Learning From Other Vices, Times, & Places

This book provides the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.

Dec 31, 2000
Report

Monitoring the Crack Epidemic Through Urine Testing: Establishment of Routine Detection Methods

This paper reports on a project sponsored by the National Institute of Justice that consisted of (1) interviews conducted with and urine specimens collected from 2327 adult arrestees; (2) development and validation of procedures for routine confirmation of crack use; and (3) establishment of standard profiles for two crack pyrolysis products, anhydroecgonine methylester and ecgonidine.

Dec 31, 2000
Report

Response to the National Research Council's Assessment of RAND's "Controlling Cocaine" Study

In 1999, a scientific committee assembled under the auspices of the National Research Council issued a critique of RAND's 1994 Controlling Cocaine report.

Jan 1, 2000
Report

Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work?

Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work?

Dec 31, 1999
Journal Article

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications

This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effect of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.

Dec 31, 1999
Report

Hardcore Drug Users Claim to be Occasional Users: Drug Use Frequency Underreporting

This study examines the accuracy of 701 frequency self-reports made by a sample of methadone maintenance clients. Self-report accuracy is evaluated by comparing rates of positive urinalyses found for each case with rates that would be expected had drug use occurred only as often as reported.

Dec 31, 1999
Research Brief

Are Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences Cost-Effective?

Mandatory minimum sentences are not justifiable on the basis of cost-effectiveness at reducing cocaine consumption or drug-related crime.

Dec 31, 1996
Report

Enforcement or Treatment? : Modeling the Relative Efficacy of Alternatives for Controlling Cocaine

Enforcement or treatment? : modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine

Dec 31, 1996
Report

Cocaine consumption in the United States : estimating past trends and future scenarios

Researchers examined cocaine consumption in the United States using a Markov model to estimate past trends and predict future scenarios.

Dec 31, 1995
Commercial Book

Snow Job? The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking

This book examines source country control policies -- policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America -- and their limitations.

Dec 31, 1995
Research Brief

Projecting Future Cocaine Use and Evaluating Control Strategies

Concluded that treatment is seven times as cost-effective (at the margin) as domestic enforcement -- the best alternative to treatment that the study evaluated.

Dec 31, 1994
Report

Developing Price Series for Cocaine

Describes how to construct time series for the price of cocaine using data from the Drug Enforcement Administration's System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

A Simple Economic Model of Cocaine Production

This report presents a simple equilibrium model of the cocaine industry in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

A System Description of the Cocaine Trade

This report documents a computer spreadsheet-based 'systems description' for the cocaine trade that is a combination of database and analytical tool.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs

This report analyzes the relative cost-effectiveness of various available drug interventions.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

Modeling the Demand for Cocaine

This report documents the development of a two-state Markovian model of the demand for cocaine and includes the estimation of incidence, prevalence, cohort retention, and consumption.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

A Simple Economic Model of Cocaine Production

This paper presents a simple equilibrium model of the cocaine industry in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.

Dec 31, 1992
Dissertation

Snow Job? The Efficacy of Source Country Cocaine Policies

This dissertation presents a dynamic economic model of the cocaine industry and source country drug control policies

Dec 31, 1992