Supervised consumption sites: a nuanced assessment of the causal evidence

JP Caulkins, B Pardo, B Kilmer - Addiction, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Supervised consumption sites (SCS) operate in more than
10 countries. SCS have mostly emerged as a bottom‐up response to crises, first to HIV/AIDS …

Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development

TY Lim, EJ Stringfellow, CA Stafford… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000
people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects …

The state of the science in opioid policy research

MS Schuler, SE Heins, R Smart, BA Griffin… - Drug and alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Characterize the state of the science in opioid policy research based on a
literature review of opioid policy studies. Methods We conducted a sco** review of studies …

Heroin use cannot be measured adequately with a general population survey

P Reuter, JP Caulkins, G Midgette - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Globally, heroin and other opioids account for more than half of deaths and
years‐of‐life‐lost due to drug use and comprise one of the four major markets for illegal …

The aggregate cost of crime in the United States

DA Anderson - The Journal of Law and Economics, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Estimates of crime's burden inform public and private decisions about crime-prevention
measures. More than counts of criminal offenses, the aggregate cost of crime conveys the …

Cannabis flower prices and transitions to legal sources after legalization in Canada, 2019–2020

E Wadsworth, P Driezen, RL Pacula… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The post-tax price of legal cannabis has the potential to influence whether
consumers transition from the illegal to legal cannabis market. The aims of the study were to …

The Baltic and Nordic responses to the first Taliban poppy ban: Implications for Europe & synthetic opioids today

JP Caulkins, A Tallaksen, J Taylor, B Kilmer… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2000–2001 and the 2022–2023 Taliban opium bans were and could be two of
the largest ever disruptions to a major illegal drug market. To help understand potential …

The dawn of a new synthetic opioid era: the need for innovative interventions

B Pardo, J Taylor, J Caulkins, P Reuter, B Kilmer - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Overdose deaths related to illegal drugs in North American markets are now
dominated by potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, a circumstance foreshadowed by …

Integration of the US cannabis market

BK Goodwin - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
I examine the degree to which markets for cannabis are integrated using semiparametric
models of spatial price linkages among US states. US attitudes toward the use of cannabis …

Opioids and the criminal justice system: new challenges posed by the modern opioid epidemic

JP Caulkins, A Gould, B Pardo… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The traditional US heroin market has transformed into a broader illegal opioid market,
dominated first by prescription opioids (PO) and now also by fentanyl and other synthetic …