how consumers respond to drug withdrawals. In theory, remaining drugs in the therapeutic class could enjoy competitive …In September 1997, the anti-obesity drugs Pondimin and Redux, ingredients in the popular drug combination fen … benefits, or suffer negative spillovers, from the withdrawal of a competing drug. Our findings suggest that, while the …

classes of policies--Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) and their usage mandates and ``Pill Mill Bills"--and their … effects on illicit drug markets. PDMPs and their prescriber-usage mandates (Mandates) target opioid-abusing individuals and …

paper presents a framework for estimating the potential for source-country drug-control policies to reduce this production …

—including expected sanctions. After setting forth the rational criminal addiction theory, the article develops a number of legal … implications that follow from the theory …

scarce, people face difficult choices. This general concept holds true in the field of drug addiction treatment as well …. Since drug use and its consequences are associated with substantial health problems and social costs in Europe and worldwide …, health care and societal costs are central issues in the treatment of drug use. Public program administrators and clinicians …