Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

ABSTRACT The United States has experienced an unprecedented crisis related to the
misuse of and addiction to opioids. As of 2018, 128 Americans die each day of an opioid …

This paper reports the application of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the
monitoring of one city in the UK in years 2014–2018 as a means of 1) exploring relative …

Background Recreational cannabis has been legalized in 11 states and Washington DC in
the US. However, little is known about individual preferences for legal cannabis products …

Many judge the American criminal justice system to have largely failed in its drug
enforcement role, and the justice system itself has suffered a loss of community support and …

Cannabis advocates argue that legalization will increase tax revenues. However, if legal
substances are substitutes, cannabis revenues may cannibalize other taxes. We document …

Background Given the growing legalization of recreational marijuana use and related
increase in its prevalence in the United States, it is important to understand marijuana's …

349 abortion reform: birth effects of, 451; fertility control and, 451; high-risk births and,
325n5; infant mortality and, 309; Roe v. Wade, 451–52; structural estimates of, 456–58; …

Introduction: Abstinence reinforcement is efficacious for improving smoking treatment
outcomes, but practical constraints related to the need for multiple in-person carbon …

Opioid overdose death rates in the United States have risen continuously for over three
decades, increasing 2,142 percent in total from 1990 to 2020. This is surprising. One might …