How Should Governments Spend the Drug Prevention Dollar?: A Buyer's Guide

Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 415-431

  Miller, Ted R ^a   Hendrie, Delia ^b  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drug prevention; Enforcement costs; Preventive investments; Primary harms; Quality adjusted life year

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247106123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713624.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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