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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaayk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AEI Evaluative Studies In its efforts to control the use A cocane, heroin, marijuana, and other illegal drugs, the United States spends aboui t 35 biltion per year inL public fAnds. Almost half a million dexlers and u'sers are under incarceraton. In this book, David Boyum and Peter Reuter provide an assessnen:t ofhow wellI thin maive investment of tax dollars and governrent authority is working. ;,.i Ng a rnarket franevork, the boot discusses the nature and efectienes aof efforts to tackle the nattafln drug problems. Drug policy has becorne inrcreasingly punr- tie, with the trlrer of drug offenders in jail and prison growing tenfold between i980 and 2003. Nevertheless, there is strikingly little evidence that toughcer law enforcemenr can naterially reduce drug use. By contrast, drug reatmenr 'services errain in short suppiy xeven though research indicates that Ireatment eXp-editurs easiy pay tor thern selves in terms of reduced icme and improved produict iity. Boyum and Reuter conclude that Americas drug poicy should be reoriented in several ways to be more effective. Enforcement should locus on reducina druz-related problerms, suc' as Violence assomated with drug markts, rather than on lo,-king up large nunmilers of low-level dealers e[ratment services Jfr heavy users, particuiarhy methadone and other opiate maintenance therapies, need more money and fewer regulations. And programs that coerce convicted drug addicts to enter treatment and mairnai abstirerce as a condition of contirued treedornr. should be expanded. Lhe A Evaluative Studies series aims to promote greater uniderstandi rig and continuing review of major activities of the federal gov ernment. Each study focuses on a government progra', or paii- in operation by examirning its purposes, adminhisation, cost, and etectiveness ard her, ecoanm-ends practicalr etrrnts for uproved perforr-i-ance. David Boy-um is ma idepetndent consultant in NewYork City Peter Reuter iss a prodassor At th Uneiversity of Marini and a senior economist in the Drug Policy Research Cenrer at RAND. U.S. DRUG American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Seet N.W. Wasilington, D.C. 20036 over imNgecc)Comtock ia.ge's PUBLIC AFFAIRS/ECONOMICS $20O0 ISE3N 084474191-4 l!!!!!!.!l~ 52000iii An Analytic Assessment of

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