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The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth
Chaloupka, Frank J. - 1998
revived. This paper attempts to inform this debate by providing some evidence on the effects of illicit drug prices and legal … sanctions for drug possession and sale on youth drug use. Data on cocaine and marijuana use by high school seniors are taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472397
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The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults : A Rational Addiction Approach
Grossman, Michael - 1996
cocaine is added to this survey from the System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence (STRIDE) maintained by the Drug … a little more than 3 percent. Surely, both proponents and opponents of drug legalization should take account of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473125
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Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-up of Naloxone
Jacobson, Mireille; Powell, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468229
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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey
Chatterji, Pinka - 2000
This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares results provide strong evidence that maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471069
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State Drug Control and Illicit Drug Participation
Saffer, Henry - 1999
expenditures on deterring illicit drug use. The empirical model is based on a demand and supply model of drug markets. The effect …. The data employed come from the 1990 and 1991 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Data on state and local … spending for drug related criminal justice and drug related public health programs were merged with the NHSDA. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471680
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Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol
Miron, Jeffrey A. - 1999
homicide rate in the United States. The results document that increases in enforcement of drug and alcohol prohibition have … penalty -- does not alter the conclusion that drug and alcohol prohibition have substantially raised the homicide rate in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471857
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The Downward Spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938733
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Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths
Mathur, Neil K.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938771
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The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 14 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana, focusing on studies that have appeared in economics journals as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510526
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Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability
Neumark, David; Savych, Bogdan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660049