Illegal drug use and public policy

Health Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 134-145

  Grossman, Michael ^a,b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^c,d,e   Shim, Kyumin ^f  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UIC Hlth Res and Policy Centers

^e NBER ^*

^f Natl Cncl for Compensation Ins   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COST; DRUG CONTROL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; REVIEW; TAX; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; GOALS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLITICS; STATE GOVERNMENT; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TAXES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038551770     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.2.134     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2000 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001); and R. MacCoun and P. Reuter, Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
2. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2000 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001); and R. MacCoun and P. Reuter, Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
3. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2000.
4. Jonathan P. Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University, personal communication with Michael Grossman, 15 May 1995; and S. Basov et al., "Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs: An Overview of Recent History" (Working Paper, Boston University, 2001).
5. Jonathan P. Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University, personal communication with Michael Grossman, 15 May 1995; and S. Basov et al., "Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs: An Overview of Recent History" (Working Paper, Boston University, 2001).
6. Basov et al., "Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs."
7. I. Kuziemko and S. Levitt, "An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders" (Working Paper, University of Chicago, 2001).
8. M. Grossman et al., "Illegal Drug Use and Public Policy" (Working Paper, City University of New York Graduate Center, 2001).
9. Gruber and Köszegi, "Is Addiction 'Rational'?"
10. Grossman and Chaloupka, "The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults."
11. Pacula et al., "Marijuana and Youth."
12. M.H. Moore, "Supply Reduction and Drug Enforcement," in Drugs and Crime, ed. M. Tonry and J.Q. Wilson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 109-157.
13. For a summary of these studies, see J. Miron, "The Effect of Drug Prohibition on Drug Prices" (Working Paper, Boston University and Bastiat Institute, 2001).
14. Ibid.
15. G.S. Becker, M. Grossman, and K.M. Murphy, "The Simple Economics of the War on Drugs" (Working Paper, University of Chicago, 2001).