Reports that the adoption of empirically derived measures of the need for services and refined measures of their costs would substantially shift block grant funds for substance abuse to smaller, more rural states.
How and why some agencies can coordinate their efforts while others have not or cannot. Specifically, what effect elements such as organizational structure, resources, trust, and political saliency have on improving interagency coordination.
Mandatory minimum sentences are not justifiable on the basis of cost-effectiveness at reducing cocaine consumption or drug-related crime.
Concluded that treatment is seven times as cost-effective (at the margin) as domestic enforcement -- the best alternative to treatment that the study evaluated.
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.
This report documents a computer spreadsheet-based 'systems description' for the cocaine trade that is a combination of database and analytical tool.
This issue paper explores the history of the federal drug-control budget as well as the methodology used to produce the numbers in it.
This report analyzes the relative cost-effectiveness of various available drug interventions.
This report summarizes the deliberations of officials and experts representing eight nations who participated in a December 1991 meeting on drug policy held in Bellagio, Italy.
This report describes the nature and extent of substance abuse problems in Newark, their effects on the community, and the programs and resources currently addressing them.
Brief 1992 assessment of cocaine use in the 1980s, including apparent changes in trends and composition of the cocaine-using population, pointing to a possible conclusion that the cocaine epidemic of the eighties was subsiding.
