This paper examines the effect of drug prohibition on the black market prices of cocaine and heroin. The paper examines …

of fentanyl smuggling occurs via legal trade flows, with a positive relationship between state-level imports and drug …

During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of … national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System … recreational marijuana on hard drug use, arrests, drug overdose deaths, suicides, and treatment admissions. Our analyses show that …

substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the … opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the … continuation. Further, studies suggest that opioids increase crime, although the link is not as strong as has been observed in …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence … of controlled substances. Using information on offenses known to law enforcement and arrests from the Uniform Crime …