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Jan 23, 2025

Polydrug Use Among Patients on Methadone Medication Treatment: Evidence from Urine Drug Testing to Inform Patient Safety

This study measured trends in illicit substance use from 2017 to 2021 in a large multi-state population of patients in methadone medication treatment for opioid use disorder (M-MOUD) and persistence of substance use in the first year of treatment.
Jun 29, 2022

Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy

Assessing the Harms of Crime provides a firm analytical foundation for making normative decisions about criminal and related policy, taking harm—and its reduction—as a conceptual starting point and supplying the means for systematic, empirical analysis in a harm assessment framework.
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Feb 11, 2022

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

The authors of this report examine the period in Colombia from 2000 to 2020 to assess the effectiveness of U.S. counternarcotics and security efforts: eradication of coca, interdiction of cocaine, security and rule of law, and development.
Press

Aug 20, 2019

Americans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What Is Spent on Alcohol

Spending on cannabis, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine by Americans reached nearly $150 billion in 2016, with a large proportion of spending coming from the small share of people who use drugs on a daily or near-daily basis.
Research

Aug 20, 2019

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016

This report updates and extends estimates of the number of users, retail expenditures, and amount consumed from 2006 to 2016 for cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in the United States.
Research

Aug 13, 2019

The Synthetic Opioid Surge in the United States: Insights from Mortality and Seizure Data

The synthetic opioid surge in the United States is a public health emergency. The authors analyze drug overdose mortality and seizure data to better understand the evolution and concentration of the synthetic opioid problem in the United States.
Commentary

Apr 28, 2017

Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?

Data lags and the elimination of the ADAM program complicate estimates of U.S. cocaine consumption. New users who haven't yet developed cocaine dependence are also a factor. It may be prudent to start planning for an increase in heavy use even before all of the evidence is in.
Jan 12, 2017

RAND Review: January-February 2017

This issue highlights ways that RAND researchers on the ground in Uganda are having a measurable impact on the lives of men and women struggling with HIV and depression. The issue also features a tribute to the late economist Charles Wolf Jr.
Research

May 4, 2016

Uncle Sam's Cocaine Nosedive: A Brief Exploration of a Dozen Hypotheses

The US cocaine market shrank by roughly 50% from 2006 to 2010, but it is too early to determine the cause.
Research

Mar 17, 2015

Dealing with Cocaine and Heroin in Italy: Business Strategies and Operations

This study provides useful insights into understanding how the cocaine and heroin market works in Italy, and the role that some dealers play within it.
Research

Feb 26, 2015

The Whole Is Just the Sum of Its Parts: Limited Polydrug Use Among the "Big Three" Expensive Drugs in the United States

Data from surveys of arrestees and the household population in the U.S. suggest there is only modest overlap among demand for the big three expensive illegal drugs (cocaine/crack, heroin, and methamphetamine).
Research

Feb 2, 2015

How Much of the Cocaine Market Are We Missing? Insights from Respondent-Driven Sampling in a Mid-Sized American City

This paper uses respondent-driven sampling (RDS) of drug users in a mid-sized American city to estimate the shares of cocaine (powder and crack) users and expenditures that are attributable to different combinations of these groups.

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Polydrug Use Among Patients on Methadone Medication Treatment: Evidence from Urine Drug Testing to Inform Patient Safety

Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

Americans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What Is Spent on Alcohol

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016

The Synthetic Opioid Surge in the United States: Insights from Mortality and Seizure Data

Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?

RAND Review: January-February 2017

Uncle Sam's Cocaine Nosedive: A Brief Exploration of a Dozen Hypotheses

Dealing with Cocaine and Heroin in Italy: Business Strategies and Operations

The Whole Is Just the Sum of Its Parts: Limited Polydrug Use Among the "Big Three" Expensive Drugs in the United States

How Much of the Cocaine Market Are We Missing? Insights from Respondent-Driven Sampling in a Mid-Sized American City

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Polydrug Use Among Patients on Methadone Medication Treatment: Evidence from Urine Drug Testing to Inform Patient Safety

Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

Americans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What Is Spent on Alcohol

What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016

The Synthetic Opioid Surge in the United States: Insights from Mortality and Seizure Data

Mixed Messages: Is Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Going Up or Down?

RAND Review: January-February 2017

Uncle Sam's Cocaine Nosedive: A Brief Exploration of a Dozen Hypotheses

Dealing with Cocaine and Heroin in Italy: Business Strategies and Operations

The Whole Is Just the Sum of Its Parts: Limited Polydrug Use Among the "Big Three" Expensive Drugs in the United States

How Much of the Cocaine Market Are We Missing? Insights from Respondent-Driven Sampling in a Mid-Sized American City

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