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 …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own … Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices and policies to the individual records. The size of this data set … and illicit drugs suggest that alcohol taxes also reduce drug use …

been difficult to acquire. This paper makes use of newly available data on drug prices and is the first to link these data … to a sample of 49,802 individuals from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse. The new drug price data comes from … the Drug Enforcement Agency. The results provide empirical evidence that drug use is more price responsive than has been …

Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policy makers for effective interventions … prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs which is a key policy targeting the non-medical use of Rx drugs. Based on objective … utilization rates by actually requiring providers to query the PDMP prior to prescribing a controlled drug, are significantly …

Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policy makers for effective interventions … prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs which is a key policy targeting the non-medical use of Rx drugs. Based on objective … utilization rates by actually requiring providers to query the PDMP prior to prescribing a controlled drug, are significantly …