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050 0 0 _aHV5824.Y68
_bO94 1999
245 0 3 _aAn ounce of prevention, a pound of uncertainty :
_bthe cost-effectiveness of school-based drug prevention programs /
_cJonathan P. Caulkins ... [et al.].
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1999.
300 _axxxiii, 194 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Drug Policy Research Center."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-194).
520 _aFocuses on school-based drug prevention programs that have proven effective in formal evaluations. Effectiveness at reducing cocaine consumption is inferred from effectiveness at reducing marijuana initiation, and spillover effects on those not participating in the program are accounted for. Given substantial uncertainties in all pertinent factors, the cost-effectiveness estimation framework is constructed to permit easy substitution of alternate values at reader preference or as more information becomes available. The authors conclude that prevention can reduce lifetime cocaine consumption by 2 to 11 percent. Although these effects are small, prevention programs are inexpensive, so that the associated cost-effectiveness values bracket those of a range of enforcement strategies. Treatment, however, appears more cost-effective than prevention. A nationwide drug prevention program would cost only a tiny fraction of what the United States now spends on drug control, but its effect on the cocaine-using population would be modest and slow to accumulate.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
650 0 _aCocaine habit
_zUnited States
_xPrevention
_xCost effectiveness.
650 0 _aDrug abuse counseling.
650 0 _aDrug abuse
_xPrevention.
650 0 _aDrug abuse
_xStudy and teaching
_zUnited States
_xCost effectiveness.
650 0 _aStudents
_xDrug use
_zUnited States
_xPrevention
_xCost effectiveness.
650 0 _aYouth
_xDrug use
_zUnited States
_xPrevention
_xCost effectiveness.
700 1 _aCaulkins, Jonathan P.
_q(Jonathan Paul),
_d1965-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aRydell, C. Peter.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aEveringham, Susan S.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aChiesa, James,
_d1949-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aBushway, Shawn.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 2 _aRAND Drug Policy Research Center.
710 2 _aRobert Wood Johnson Foundation.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR923/
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_d599179