Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

ABSTRACT The United States has experienced an unprecedented crisis related to the
misuse of and addiction to opioids. As of 2018, 128 Americans die each day of an opioid …

Overdose deaths from prescription opioid pain relievers nearly quadrupled between 1999
and 2010. We study the consequences of one of the largest supply disruptions to date to …

Abstract The Dark Net has changed the way drugs are traded globally by shifting trade away
from the streets and onto the web. In this paper, I study whether the shutdown of Dark Net …

Cannabis accounts for the largest share of the illicit drug market, with a high prevalence of
use even among adolescents. To tackle this longstanding problem, many kinds of reforms to …

This review paper covers the forensic-relevant literature in controlled substances from 2016
to 2019 as a part of the 19th Interpol International Forensic Science Managers Symposium …

During the last decade illicit online drug markets have grown from niche markets into full-
fledged platform economies. It seems that over the course of a few years, sellers and buyers …

In 2001, a large and sustained supply shock halted a heroin epidemic in Australia. We use
outpatient drug treatment records to identify individuals who accounted for nearly half of …

In 2001, a large and sustained supply shock halted a heroin epidemic in Australia. We use
drug offenses to identify individual opioid users and examine how the shock affected their …

Background Drug policies and interventions require an ongoing understanding of the local
demand for illegal drugs. How illegal drugs are distributed to consumers is critical in the …