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1 January 2006

Addicted to failure

...We (WOLA) believe that U.S. drug policy in Latin America has been ineffective at achieving its own goals and has generated much collateral damage.
1 January 2006

RAND Report: The evidence base for the classification of drugs

This report, prepared by the RAND Corporation for the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology in the United Kingdom, presents the results of four case studies examining the evidence base for the classification of illegal drugs in the context of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act.
1 January 2006

Social and economic costs of drug use in the UK

The Home Office have published a research study called The economic and social costs of Class A drug use in England and Wales which provides a useful analyses of the wider costs of illegal drugs – the most thorough and recent such study available. The study, undertaken by York University, explains its methodology and has analysis which is very clear about it's limitations, giving a wide margin of error on all its estimates due to the unreliability of some source data.