Long-run abstinence after narcotics abuse: what are the odds?
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A study was conducted to analyze the long-run odds that narcotics users remain abstinent after methadone treatment using a split-population hazard approach. The approach relaxes the relapse assumption and promotes individual-level variations in the long-run probability of eventual relapse and the short-term timing of relapse for persons who will eventually do so. Results indicated that increases in the base relapse rate among drug addicts correlated with time. The short-run success of methadone programs does not automatically correlate into long-run abstinence. Findings also showed that the long-run abstinence probability correlates with the age of the earliest incidence. In addition, there exists the need for a periodic monitoring of a former drug user's abstinence after treatment.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1998
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Modeling the domestic distribution network for illicit drugs
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An economic model examining a drug dealer's decision about how many customers to supply is developed to guide drug policy making. It formalizes the trade off between the competing incentives for dealers to sell to a larger or a smaller number of customers. On the one hand, selling to more, lower-level customers increases the profits of drug dealers. On the other hand, selling to fewer customers decreases costs and the risk of being caught by law enforcement officers. The model expresses the solution to the choice between these options in terms of a quantity discount parameter, the branching factor and the purchase price-selling cost ratio for the dealer. It suggests the potential impact of enforcement on retail price and consumption.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1997
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Measuring the long-term effects of public policy: the case of narcotics use and property crime
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The impact of legal supervision and treatment on criminal activities and the use of narcotics was investigated by using new time-series techniques. These techniques disentangled the long-range and short-range impact of intervention. The control variables included age, abstinence from narcotics use, and methadone maintenance treatment. The long-term effect of methadone maintenance treatment was the reduction of criminal activities and the reduction in the use of narcotics. A higher level of legal supervision led to higher levels of criminal activity and narcotics use.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1991
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