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Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy (1999) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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... Supply-control activities include disruption of production in source countries, interdiction of drug shipments from source countries, and domestic law enforcement activities that aim to disrupt the marketing of drugs within the United States. Demand-control activities include prevention, treatment, and law enforcement activities that seek to reduce the prevalence, intensity, or harmful consequences of drug use among Americans.
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... Researchers sought to understand the empirical relationship between drug use, drug production, and the street price of drugs. Some studies sought to compare the effect of alternative cocaine control strategies, including source country eradication and enforcement programs, interdiction efforts, local criminal justice programs, sentencing schemes, and treatment programs (Crane, Rivolo, and Comfort, 1997; Caulkins et al., 1997; Everingham and Rydell, 1994; Rydell and Everingham, 1994~.
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... The basis for this change in strategy has been the administration's reliance on the 1994 RAND study. 5 The RAND and IDA studies specify similar hypothetical objectives for cocaine control policy, namely reduction in cocaine consumption in the United States by 1 percent.
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... Nor does the committee attempt to reach its own conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of alternative policies in reducing cocaine consumption. IDA personnel advised that access to classified data is important if the IDA study is to be fully understood.
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... The committee applied a necessarily looser and more pragmatic standard: Are the study's findings sufficiently credible that they should be given weight in the analysis and design of national drug control policy? THE WORK AHEAD The committee is now moving forward on its broad study of data and research to inform drug control policy.
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