Drug use is one of the pressing issues facing humanity since time immemorial. Ground reality exhibits that there are … linear association of drug use with violence, corruption, incest and numerous other immoral activities. Towards drugs … addiction the policy approach of contemporary science of economics is based on two hands. On one hand economists encourage the …

—including expected sanctions. After setting forth the rational criminal addiction theory, the article develops a number of legal … addiction. Curiosity or a transient attraction can lead an offender to commit her first crime. This first infraction will give … notwithstanding the fact that but-for the addiction she would have obeyed the law. The addicted criminal trades off the heightened …

means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income …

, we apply the Becker-Murphy model of rational addiction to present evidence that consumers are rationally addicted to soda … and consumption and study the role of addiction in influencing this impact. Using the parameter estimates, we conduct … policy experiments indicate that imposing a soda tax of 1 cent per ounce would reduce soda consumption by 28.3% and addiction …

We develop a new model of addictive behavior that takes as a starting point the classic rational addiction model of … properties. Our theory provides plausible explanations of several typical patterns of addictive behavior and has also novel …