Drug Abuse and Drug Policy: Publications
Publications are listed here in reverse chronological order, alphabetically
by year.
A complete list of Drug Policy Research Center publications is available on the DPRC website.
Acculturation and Driving Under the Influence: A Study of Repeat Offenders — 2006
Hunter, Sarah B., Wong, E., Beighley, C. M., & Morral, A. R.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67: 458-464, 2006.
How much can treatment reduce national drug problems? — 2006
Peter Reuter, Harold Pollack
Abstract (Addiction, 101: 341)
Predicting DUI recidivism: Personality, attitudinal, and behavioral risk factors — 2006
Terry L. Schell, Kitty S. Chan, and Andrew Morral
Abstract (Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 82: 33-40)
The Relative Effectiveness of 10 Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the United States — 2006
Andrew R. Morral, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Greg Ridgeway, Arnab Mukherji, Christopher Beighley
Full Document 
Research Brief
What drug policies cost: Estimating government drug policy expenditures — 2006
Peter Reuter
Abstract (Addiction, 101: 315)
Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining Resulting
in Prison Sentences on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona — 2005
K. Jack Riley, Nancy Rodriguez, Greg Ridgeway, Dionne Barnes-Proby,
Terry Fain, Nell Griffith Forge, Vincent Webb and Linda J. Demaine
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Document News
Release
State Activities to Improve Service Delivery Systems for Individuals
with Co-Occurring Mental and Addictive Disorders —2005
Harold Alan Pincus, M. Audrey Burnam, Jennifer L. Magnabosco, Jacob
W. Dembosky, Michael D. Greenberg
Full
Document
How Goes the “War on Drugs”? An Assessment of U.S. Drug
Problems and Policy —2005
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter H. Reuter, Martin Y. Iguchi and James
Chiesa
Full
Document Research
Brief
Evaluating Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Adolescent Probationers — 2004
Andrew R. Morral, Daniel F. McCaffrey, and Greg Ridgeway
Research Brief
Drug Use and Drug Policy Futures: Insights from a Colloquium — 2003
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, Martin Y. Iguchi, James Chiesa
Full
Document
Evaluation of the Impact of Seattle's DWLS Impound Law — 2003
Laura J. Hickman, Terry Fain, Susan Turner, Greg Ridgeway, Barbara
Raymond, J.R. Lockwood
Full
Document
How State Medical Marijuana Laws Vary: A Comprehensive Review — 2003
Research
Brief
Access to Inpatient or Residential Substance Abuse Treatment among
Homeless Adults With Alcohol or Other Drug Use Disorders — 2002
Wenzel, S., Burnam, A., Koegel, P., Morton, S.,
Miu, A., Jinnett, K., Sullivan, G.
Ordering
Information
Measuring Global Drug Markets: How Good Are the Numbers and Why Should
We Care About Them? — 2002
Reuter, P., Greenfield, V.
Ordering
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School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent? — 2002
Jonathan Caulkins, Rosalie Pacula, Susan Paddock, James R. Chiesa
Full
Document Research
Brief (HTML) 
Research
Brief (PDF)
Using Marijuana May Not Raise the Risk of Using Harder Drugs — 2002
Research
Brief
Correlates of HIV Risk Among Female Sex Partners of Injecting Drug
Users in a High-Seroprevalence Area — 2001
Iguchi, M., Bux, D., Kushner, H., Ludz, V.
Ordering
Information
Drug Courts: A Conceptual Framework — 2001
Longshore, D., Turner, S., Wenzel, S., Morral, A.,
Harrell, A., McBride, D., Deschenes, E., Iguchi, M.
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Information
Drug Prices and Emergency Department Mentions for Cocaine and Heroin — 2001
Caulkins, J.
Ordering
Information
Factors Associated With Readiness to Change Drug Use Among Needle-Exchange
Users — 2001
Bluthenthal, R., Gogineni, A., Longshore, D., Stein, M.
Ordering
Information
The Limits of Supply-Side Drug Control — 2001
Reuter, P.
Ordering
Information
Monitoring the Crack Epidemic Through Urine Testing: Establishment
of Routine Detection Methods — 2001
Riley, K., Lu, N., Meeker, J., Lo, P., Fortner, N.,
Taylor, B.
Ordering
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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications — 2001
Wenzel, S., Kosofsky, B., Harvey, J., Iguchi, M.,
Steinberg, P., Watkins, K., Shaikh, R.
Full Document
A Dynamic Model of Drug Initiation: Implications for Treatment and
Drug Control — 2000
Behrens, D., Caulkins, J., Tragler, G., Haunschmied, J.,
Feichtinger, G.
Ordering
Information
Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work? — 2000
Caulkins, J.
Ordering
Information
Drug Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: Will Proposition 36
Treat or Create Problems? — 2000
Riley, K.J., Ebener, P.A., Chiesa, J.R., Turner, S., Ringel, J.
Full
Document
Hardcore Drug Users Claim to Be Occasional Users: Drug Use Frequency
Underreporting — 2000
Morral, A.R., McCaffrey, D., Iguchi, M.Y.
Ordering
Information
Improving Anti-Drug Budgeting — 2000
Patrick Murphy, Lynn E. Davis, Timothy Liston, David Thaler, Kathi
Webb
Full
Document
Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure — 2000
Zellman, G., Bell, R.M., Archie, C., DuPlessis, H., Hoube, J., Miu,
A.
Ordering
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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications — 2000
Wenzel, S.L., Kosofsky, B.E., Harvey, J.A., Iguchi, M.Y., Steinberg,
P., Watkins, K.E., Shaikh, R.
Ordering
Information
Response to the National Research Council's Assessment of RAND's Controlling
Cocaine Study — 2000
Caulkins, J.P., Chiesa, J.R., Sohler Everingham, S.M.
Full
Document
The Effect of Syringe Exchange Use on High-Risk Injection Drug Users:
A Cohort Study — 2000
Bluthenthal, R.N., Kral, A.H., Gee, L., Erringer, E.A., Edlin, B.R.
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The Evolution of Drug Initiation: From Social Networks to Public Markets — 2000
Caulkins, J.
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Adolescent Use of Illicit Drugs Other Than Marijuana: How Important
Is Social Bonding and for Which Ethnic Groups? — 1999
Ellickson, P.L., Collins, R.L., Bell, R.M.
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An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness
of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs — 1999
Caulkins, J.P., Rydell, C.P., Sohler Everingham, S.M., Chiesa, J.R.,
Bushway, S.
Full
Document
Reducing Drug Use by Encouraging Alternative Behaviors in Motivating
Behavior Change Among Illicit-Drug Abusers: Research on Contingency Management
Interventions — 1999
Morral, A.R., Iguchi, M.Y., Belding, M.A.
Ordering
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Utilization of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Among Homeless
Adults in Los Angeles — 1999
Koegel, P., Sullivan, J.G., Burnam, M.A., Morton, S.C., Wenzel, S.L.
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Are Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences Cost-Effective? — 1998
Caulkins, J.P., Rydell, C.P., Schwabe, W., Chiesa, J.R.
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Can Difficult-to-Reuse Syringes Reduce the Spread of HIV Among Injection
Drug Users? — 1998
Caulkins, J.P., Kaplan, E.H., Lurie, P., O'Connor, T., Ahn, S.J.
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Desire for Help Among Drug-Using Mexican-American Arrestees — 1998
Longshore, D.
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Drug Control in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment — 1998
MacCoun, R.J., Reuter, P.
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Drug Problem Recognition Among African American Drug-Using Arrestees — 1998
Longshore, D., Grills, C.
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Drug Problem Recognition Among Mexican-American Drug-Using Arrestees — 1998
Longshore, D.
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Effects of Case Management on Drug Users' Risky Sex — 1998
Longshore, D., Turner, S., Anglin, M.D.
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Influencing Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure Through
State Legislation and Work-Place Policies — 1998
Zellman, G., Jacobson, P.D., Bell, R.M.
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Investing In Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs
and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions — 1998
Karoly, L.A., Greenwood, P.W., Sohler Everingham, S.M., Hoube, J.,
Kilburn, M.R., Rydell, C.P., Sanders, M.R., Chiesa, J.R.
Full
Document
Modeling the Domestic Distribution Network for Illicit Drugs — 1998
Caulkins, J.P.
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Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Block Grant Allotment Formula — 1998
Burnam, M.A., Reuter, P., Adams, J.L., Palmer, A.R., Model, K.E.,
Rolph, J.E., Heilbrunn, L.Z., Marshall, G.N., McCaffrey, D., Wenzel,
S.L., Kessler, R.C.
Full
Document
Toward a Psychology of Harm Reduction — 1998
MacCoun, R.J.
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Treatment Motivation Among African American Drug-Using Arrestees — 1998
Longshore, D., Grills, C., Anglin, M.D., Annon, K.
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Harm Reduction and Social Policy: Should Addicts Be Paid? — 1997
Reuter, P., MacCoun, R.J.
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Interpreting Dutch Cannabis Policy: Reasoning by Analogy in the Legalization
Debate — 1997
MacCoun, R.J., Reuter, P.
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Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayer's
Money? — 1997
Caulkins, J.P., Rydell, C.P., Schwabe, W., Chiesa, J.R.
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Information Summary
Treatment Motivation Among Mexican-American Drug-Using Arrestees — 1997
Longshore, D., Grills, C., Anglin, M.D., Annon, K.
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Associations Between Drug Use and Deviant Behavior in Teenagers — 1996
Hays, R.D., Ellickson, P.L.
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Concurrent Risk Factors for Adolescent Violence — 1996
Saner, H.L., Ellickson, P.L.
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Drug Court or Probation? An Experimental Evaluation of Maricopa County's
Drug Court — 1996
Deschenes, E.P., Turner, S., Greenwood, P.W.
Ordering
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Measuring Outcomes of Care for Substance Use and Mental Disorders — 1996
Burnam, M.A.
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Prevalence and Circumstances of Drug Use at Los Angeles Shooting Galleries — 1996
Longshore, D.
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Snow Job? The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking — 1996
Riley, K.J.
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Teenagers and Alcohol Misuse in the United States: By Any Definition,
It's a Big Problem — 1996
Ellickson, P.L., McGuigan, K.A., Adams, V., Bell, R.M., Hays, R.D.
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The Meaning and Utility of Drug Prices — 1996
Caulkins, J.P., Reuter, P.
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