Enforcement or treatment? Modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 687-695

  Peter Rydell, C ^a   Caulkins, Jonathan P ^a,b   Everingham, Susan S ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG PRODUCTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COCAINE CONSUMPTION; COCAINE CONTROL PROGRAMS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0030233327     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.5.687     Document Type: Article

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