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Author: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

Title: Serbia: Country Overview 2009

Summary: This country overview provides a structured synopsis of the trends and characteristics of national drug problems in Serbia in 2009. It consists of a summary of the national drug situation presenting brief information in key areas - drug prevalence, prevention, harm reduction, drug laws, etc.

Details: Luxembourg: Publications Office for the European Union, 2009. 16p.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2009

Country: Serbia and Montenegro

URL:

Shelf Number: 119126

Keywords:
Drug Abuse and Addiction
Drug Policy
Drug Prevention
Drug Treatment
Drugs (Serbia)

Author: Bumbarger, Brian K.

Title: Is There a Role for Police in School-based Drug Prevention? The Law-Enforcement Education Partnership to Promote LifeSkills Training (LEEP-LST) Project: Final Report

Summary: This project was a pilot study intended to explore the potential utility of using police officers to deliver a school-based drug prevention curriculum. As prevention research continues to inform public policy, practitioners and policy makers are moving to the adoption of prevention strategies with demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in well-designed studies. Of the programs with strong empirical support, there were no examples that involved police officers in school-based prevention (demand reduction) efforts. This had the unfortunate and unintended consequence of alienating police agencies who desired to work collaboratively with schools in substance abuse prevention, and has limited the options of schools who wish to pursue empirically supported programs. The results show that police officers are capable of delivering a quality prevention program with fidelity, and suggest that disappointing results in prior research with officer-delivered curricula should not be attributed to officers being a poor fit for this type of work.

Details: State College, PA: Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, 2007. 37p.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2007

Country: United States

URL:

Shelf Number: 118603

Keywords:
Drug Prevention
Schools, Drug Education

Author: Mejia, Daniel

Title: The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A Simple Analytical Framework

Summary: This paper develops a model of the war against illegal drugs in both producer and consumer countries. The paper studies the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the optimal allocation of resources between these two alternatives depends on the key parameters of the model. We use available data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the model, such as the price elasticity of demand for cocaine; the effectiveness of prevention and treatment policies; and the relative effectiveness of interdiction efforts.

Details: Munich: CESifo, 2008. 23p.

Source: Internet Resource: CESifo Working Paper, No. 2459: Accessed September 14, 2010 at: http://www.cesifo.de/DocCIDL/cesifo1_wp2459.pdf


Year: 2008

Country: International

URL: http://www.cesifo.de/DocCIDL/cesifo1_wp2459.pdf


Shelf Number: 119800

Keywords:
Drug Enforcement
Drug Policy
Drug Prevention
Drug Trafficking
Drug Treatment
Plan Colombia
War on Drugs