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Changing the prescription / Yorke, Claire; Gomis, Benoit

Gomis, Benoit	Journal Article
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Publication	2012.
Summary/Abstract	The fifty-year global war against drugs has failed and the time has come to admit it. Claire Yorke and Benoit Gomis argue that a new approach is now needed

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Drugs ; Global War ; Drugs Policy ; War on Drugs ; United Nations

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ID: 080440

Does price really matter? the relationship between heroin price / Prunckun, Hank

Prunckun, Hank	Journal Article
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2007.

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This study determines the relationship between the black market price for heroin and its corresponding purity in Australia for the period from July 1996 to June 2003 (seven years). The study used regression and correlation analyses to test the relationship between the two variables. If a negative relationship was found, then it would suggest that law enforcement operations were effective. However, the study determined that there was a near-zero correlation (r = 0.02) at commercial level (i.e. weights of one ounce) but a moderate relationship (r = 0.37) at user level (i.e. weights of 1 g). From this it was concluded that Australian law enforcement operations targeting commercial quantities were neither effective nor ineffective; but operations targeting street-level users were noticeably ineffective. To improve success at both levels, the study put forward the proposition that more aggressive enforcement operations in front of the international Customs barrier may be needed

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Drugs trafficking ; Heroin ; Drugs Policy ; Drugs Strategy

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ID: 080438

On the resilience of illegal drug markets / Bouchard, Martin

Bouchard, Martin	Journal Article
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2007.

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This paper argues that the concept of resilience is a fruitful way of understanding the impact of repressive policies on illegal drug markets. For the purpose of this article, resilience is defined as the ability of market participants to preserve the existing levels of exchanges between buyers and sellers, despite external pressure aimed at disrupting the trade. The first part of the paper highlights how some of the core features of illegal drug markets, a decentralized structure and high prices, contribute to increasing their resilience to attacks. The second part develops a framework that can be used to compare markets on the basis of their resilient properties. Some of the empirical and policy implications of the framework are discussed in the conclusion

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Law Enforcement ; Resilience ; Illegal Drug Markets ; Drugs Policy

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