Enforcement or Treatment? Modeling the Relative Efficacy of Alternatives for Controlling Cocaine

C. Peter Rydell, Jonathan P. Caulkins and Susan S. Everingham
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C. Peter Rydell: RAND, Santa Monica, California
Jonathan P. Caulkins: RAND, Santa Monica, California, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Susan S. Everingham: RAND, Santa Monica, California

Operations Research, 1996, vol. 44, issue 5, 687-695

Abstract: This paper presents a model that estimates the relative cost-effectiveness of four cocaine-control programs: three “supply control” programs (source-country control, interdiction, and domestic enforcement) and a “demand control” program (treating heavy users). Treatment emerges as by far the most cost-effective, and sensitivity analyses show that this result is very robust.

Keywords: government; cost-effectiveness; judicial/legal; illicit drug policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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