Publisher description: An analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. In...

Ob Prohibition, Staatsmonopol oder Lizenzsystem, der Schlüssel zu einer effektiven Regulierung des Onlineglücksspielmarktes ist die Rechtsdurchsetzung. Es werden die sehr unterschiedlichen Regulierungsmodelle von acht europäischen Ländern hinsichtlich ihrer Ausgestaltung und ihrer...

Marktüberblick Glücksspiele und Automaten -- Sozialkonzepte als Interessenskonflikt von Glücksspielanbietern -- Wirksame Parameter in Sozialkonzepten -- Analyse bestehender Sozialkonzepte -- Empirische Prüfung auf Wirksamkeit bestehender Sozialkonzepte -- Rechtspolitische Vorschläge. .

This study investigates the effects of a broad-based policy change that altered maternal employment, family income, and other family characteristics on drug-related crime among youth. Specifically, we exploit differences in the implementation of welfare reform in the United States across states...

This chapter introduces a simulation model to estimate the social costs of problem drug misusers in England and Wales, and how policies to increase the number of drug users in treatment may impact on both social costs and government expenditure. Consequences are divided into five domains –...

Despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. State efforts to reduce overdose deaths by removing barriers to naloxone have recently focused on pharmacy channels, but the specifics of these laws and the contexts in which...

We examine the effect of increasing the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment rate on reducing violent and property crime rates, based on county-level panels of SUD treatment and crime data between 2001 and 2008 across the United States. To address the potential endogeneity of the SUD treatment...