Round-Up of Studies, Reports, and Polls
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- National Drug Control Strategy, Executive Summary (April 1995)
- National Drug Control Strategy (full report) (February 1995)
- What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 1988-1993 (Spring 1995)
- Pulse Check: National Trends in Drug Abuse (Spring 1995)
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Drugs & Crime Data Clearinghouse
800-666-3332
- What We Are Getting for Our Federal Drug Control Dollars (1995)
Drug Strategies
202-663-6090
- 1994 Annual Report (Spring 1995)
U.S. Sentencing Commission
202-273-4590
REPORTS FROM RAND
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RAND
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P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
tel 310-451-7002; fax 310-451-6915
- RP-237 -- Do Drug Prevention Effects Persist into High School? How Project ALERT Did with Ninth Graders
- RP-354 -- Patterns of Drug Use
- RP-240 -- The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on Hospital Emergency Room Drug Episodes: 1975-1978
- RP-208 -- Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Long-Term Results of a Junior High Program
- RP-153 -- Hawks Ascendant: The Punitive Trend of American Drug Policy
- DRU-170-2-NIJ -- Drugs and Crime in Public Housing: A Three-City Analysis
- DRU-893-DPRC -- Examining the Behavioral Assumptions of the National Drug Control Strategy
- RP-209 -- Drugs and the Law: A Psychological Analysis of Drug Prohibition
- RP-242 -- A Content Analysis of the Drug Legalization Debate
- RP-224 -- Drug Policies and Problems: The Promise and Pitfalls of Cross-National Comparison
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REPORTS
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GAO
P.O. Box 6015
Gaithersburg, MD 20884-6015
tel 202-512-6000; fax 301-258-4066
- HRD-94-24 -- Drug Use Among Youth: No Simple Answers to Guide Prevention
- T-NSIAD-94-14 -- Drug Control: Expanded Military Surveillance Not Justified by Measurable Goals or Results
- NSIAD-94-233 -- Drug Control: Interdiction Efforts in Central America Have Had Little Impact on the Flow of Drugs
- T-GGD-94-7 -- Drug Control: Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
- T-GGD-94-49 -- Drug Control: The Office of National Drug Control Policy -- Strategies Need Performance Measures
- T-NSIAD-94-251 -- Drug Control: U.S. Counterdrug Activities in Central America
- T-PEMD-94-4 -- Drug Use Measurement: Strengths, Limitations, and Recommendations for Improvement
- T-NSIAD-94-53 -- The Drug War: Colombia Is Implementing Antidrug Efforts, but Impact Is Uncertain
- GGD-94-48 -- Federal Prison Expansion: Overcrowding Reduced but Inmate Population Growth May Raise Issue Again
- NSIAD-94-34 -- Illicit Narcotics: Recent Efforts to Control Chemical Diversion and Money Laundering
- GGD-94-143 -- INS Drug Task Force Activities: Federal Agencies Supportive of INS Efforts
- T-GGD-94-178 -- Restitution, Fines, and Forfeiture: Issues for Further Review and Oversight
- GGD-94-63BR -- Sentencing: Intermediate Sanctions in the Federal Criminal Justice System
- HEHS-94-89 -- Foster Care: Parental Drug Abuse Has Alarming Impact on Young Children
- T-HEHS-94-101 -- Social Security: Disability Benefits for Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Are Out of Control
- HEHS-94-128 -- Social Security: Major Changes Needed for Disability Benefits for Addicts
- HEHS-94-130W -- Health, Education, Employment, Social Security, Welfare, and Veterans Reports
- HEHS-94-163W -- Health, Education, Employment, Social Security, Welfare, and Veterans Reports
- HRD-94-14W -- Health Reports
- HRD-94-62W -- Health Reports
- HR-95-7 -- Asset Forfeiture Programs
- GGD-94-13 -- Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Are They Being Imposed and Who Is Receiving Them?
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