Enforcement or Treatment? Modeling the Relative Efficacy of Alternatives for Controlling Cocaine
C. Peter Rydell, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Susan S. Everingham
Operations Research · 1996 · Volume 44 · Issue 5
Abstract
This paper presents a model that estimates the relative cost-effectiveness of four cocaine-control programs: three “supply control” programs (source-country control, interdiction, and domestic enforcement) and a “demand control” program (treating heavy users). Treatment emerges as by far the most cost-effective, and sensitivity analyses show that this result is very robust.
Keywords
government, cost-effectiveness, judicial/legal, illicit drug policy
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