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Jan 1, 2001

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.
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Jan 1, 2001

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work?

Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work?
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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.
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Jan 1, 1997

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

Enforcement or treatment? : modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine
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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.
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Jan 1, 1996

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.
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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.
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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.

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