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Mar 10, 2014

How Big Is the U.S. Market for Illegal Drugs?

Using data from 2000 to 2010, RAND researchers estimated the number of users, expenditures, and consumption for four illicit drugs: cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine (meth).
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Mar 7, 2014

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 2000–2010

RAND researchers generated national estimates of the total number of users, total expenditures, and total consumption for four illicit drugs from 2000 to 2010: cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine.
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Jan 1, 2014

Cocaine's Fall and Marijuana's Rise: Questions and Insights Based on New Estimates of Consumption and Expenditures in U. S. Drug Markets

The halving of the cocaine market in five years and the parallel (but independent) large rise in daily/near-daily marijuana use are major events that were not anticipated by the expert community and raise important theoretical, research, and policy issues.
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Oct 1, 2011

Childhood Socio-Economic Status and the Onset, Persistence, and Severity of DSM-IV Mental Disorders in a US National Sample

Although significant associations between childhood socio-economic status (SES) and adult mental disorders have been widely documented, SES has been defined using several different indicators often considered alone.
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Sep 1, 2011

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.
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Jun 1, 2011

An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment

Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.
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Jun 1, 2011

Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity

More-popular middle school students are more likely to be cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana users, as well as past-month drinkers, suggesting that popularity is a risk factor for substance abuse.
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Jan 1, 2011

Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home?

Latent class analysis. A new approach to studying the role of place in population health, can be used in both research and practice.
Research

Jan 1, 2010

Crystal Methamphetamine Use Among American Indian and White Youth in Appalachia: Social Context, Masculinity, and Desistance

Comparisons of methamphetamine use among American Indian men in Appalachia and that in other populations and regions suggest that similar motivations and contextual factors may influence meth use across diverse cultural and regional contexts.
Research

Jan 1, 2010

Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth

This study found that abstinence from all substance use for 12 months among a sample of 13-17 year olds was associated with positive long-term educational and economic outcomes relative to use of any substance.
Podcast

Jul 13, 2009

The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States

In this Congressional Briefing held on July 13, 2009, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, presents the results of the first comprehensive national assessment of the annual economic burden posed by methamphetamine use.
Apr 27, 2009

RAND Review: Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2009

Feature stories discuss government cost controls, health information technology, and negotiations with Iran; other stories discuss climate change, soft power, charter schools, meth use, Hispanic enlistments, Mumbai terrorism, and Jeremy Azrael.

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How Big Is the U.S. Market for Illegal Drugs?

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 2000–2010

Cocaine's Fall and Marijuana's Rise: Questions and Insights Based on New Estimates of Consumption and Expenditures in U. S. Drug Markets

Childhood Socio-Economic Status and the Onset, Persistence, and Severity of DSM-IV Mental Disorders in a US National Sample

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An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment

Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity

Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home?

Crystal Methamphetamine Use Among American Indian and White Youth in Appalachia: Social Context, Masculinity, and Desistance

Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth

The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States

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How Big Is the U.S. Market for Cannabis, Cocaine, Heroin, and Meth?

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How Big Is the U.S. Market for Illegal Drugs?

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 2000–2010

Cocaine's Fall and Marijuana's Rise: Questions and Insights Based on New Estimates of Consumption and Expenditures in U. S. Drug Markets

Childhood Socio-Economic Status and the Onset, Persistence, and Severity of DSM-IV Mental Disorders in a US National Sample

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program

An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment

Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity

Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home?

Crystal Methamphetamine Use Among American Indian and White Youth in Appalachia: Social Context, Masculinity, and Desistance

Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth

The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States

RAND Review: Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2009

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