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Author | : Ananias Meletiadis |
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Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781423515012 |
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This thesis examines the magnitude of the deterrence effect associated with the implementation of the "zero tolerance" policy in the U.S. military in the early 1980s. The estimation of the deterrence effect is based on the estimation of linear probability models (LPM). A difference-in-difference estimator is obtained by comparing pre- and post- policy differences in drug use rates in the military and civilian sectors. The thesis uses data on drug participation drawn from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse and the DoD Worldwide Health Survey. The study investigates the deterrence effect for the military as a whole, for each branch, for various age groups, and two different measures of drug participation. The results show that a significant deterrence effect appears to have been associated with the implementation of the "zero tolerance" and drug testing policy, especially for the past year drug participation rates. Additionally, there is evidence that individuals above 25 years old who are more educated and married have smaller drug participation rates than the rest of the population.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
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Download Drug Abuse Control Activities Affecting Military Personnel, Department of Defense Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Download A Statistical Analysis of the Deterrence and Substitution Effects of the Military Services' Drug Prevention Programs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This thesis measures the deterrence and substitution effects of the military's drug testing program. Data used is from the 1995 and 1980 versions of the Department of Defense "Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Military Personnel" and the 1995 and 1979 versions of the "National Household Survey on Drug Abuse." The statistical analyses examine three separate but related topics: (1) The deterrence effect of the military's drug prevention programs; (2) The possible substitution of legal for illegal substances; and (3) The role of selection bias in estimates of the deterrence effect. The results indicate that the military's drug testing program is a deterrence to illicit drug use. The results also provide evidence that the military's drug testing program produces an unanticipated positive effect of reducing heavy alcohol consumption. Lastly, results of our analysis indicate that there is no selection bias; individuals who are likely to choose military service would not be less prone to use illicit drugs than their civilian counterparts in the absence of the testing program.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Drug control |
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Author | : Richard L. Diddmas |
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Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1999 |
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This thesis measures the deterrence and substitution effects of the military's drug testing program. Data used is from the 1995 and 1980 versions of the Department of Defense "Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Military Personnel" and the 1995 and 1979 versions of the "National Household Survey on Drug Abuse." The statistical analyses examine three separate but related topics: (1) The deterrence effect of the military's drug prevention programs; (2) The possible substitution of legal for illegal substances; and (3) The role of selection bias in estimates of the deterrence effect. The results indicate that the military's drug testing program is a deterrence to illicit drug use. The results also provide evidence that the military's drug testing program produces an unanticipated positive effect of reducing heavy alcohol consumption. Lastly, results of our analysis indicate that there is no selection bias; individuals who are likely to choose military service would not be less prone to use illicit drugs than their civilian counterparts in the absence of the testing program.
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Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
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Download A Study of Department of Defense Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Programs: Background Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard L. Diddams, Jr. |
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Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781423547112 |
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This thesis measures the deterrence and substitution effects of the military's drug testing program. Data used is from the 1995 and 1980 versions of the Department of Defense "Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Military Personnel" and the 1995 and 1979 versions of the "National Household Survey on Drug Abuse." The statistical analyses examine three separate but related topics: (1) The deterrence effect of the military's drug prevention programs; (2) The possible substitution of legal for illegal substances; and (3) The role of selection bias in estimates of the deterrence effect. The results indicate that the military's drug testing program is a deterrence to illicit drug use. The results also provide evidence that the military's drug testing program produces an unanticipated positive effect of reducing heavy alcohol consumption. Lastly, results of our analysis indicate that there is no selection bias; individuals who are likely to choose military service would not be less prone to use illicit drugs than their civilian counterparts in the absence of the testing program.
Author | : Rosalie Liccardo Pacula |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780833096678 |
Download Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Prescription Drug Misuse Among Active-duty Service Members Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Prescription drug misuse (PDM) is of critical concern for the military because of its potential impact on military readiness, the health and well-being of military personnel, and associated health care costs. The purpose of this report is to summarize insights gleaned from a series of activities that the RAND Corporation undertook for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness to address this important health and military readiness issue. The authors completed a review of U.S. Department of Defense policies and a comprehensive literature review of clinical guidelines and the empirical literature on the prevention and treatment of PDM and conducted individual face-to-face interviews with 66 health and behavioral health care providers at nine medical treatment facilities across three regions within the contiguous United States to identify best practices in the prevention, identification, and treatment of PDM and the extent to which those practices are known and followed. The report also presents the framework of an analytic tool that, once informed by data available to the military but not available to the authors, can assist the military in predicting future trends in PDM based on current demographics of active-duty service members and rates of injury and prescribing of prescription drugs. The findings from this work led the authors to formulate a set of key insights that they believe might improve the rapid identification and treatment of service members dealing with PDM, thereby improving future force readiness"--
Author | : Robert Ward |
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Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781423545477 |
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Substance abuse in the military has serious and costly consequences. The aim of this research is to measure quantitatively the deterrence effect of the military's drug testing and "zero tolerance" policies. A second purpose is to statistically measure the degree to which selection bias may explain the deterrence effect associated with the military services' drug testing policy. Additionally, this thesis investigates the propensity of service members to substitute legal drugs or alcohol for illicit drugs as a result of drug testing. The results indicate the military's drug prevention policies do have a substantial effect on service members' drug use behavior. The evidence also suggests that self-selection of applicants to the military does not significantly reduce the magnitude of the estimated deterrence effect. However, the results also suggest that there may be an unintended consequence of these policies in the form of military members substituting legal drugs such as alcohol for illegal drugs.
Author | : Stephen L. Mehay |
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Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drugs and employment |
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Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating that they have any effect on drug use by employees. This paper analyzes the deterrence effect of a particularly aggressive workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of current employees and zero tolerance. Using data from various years of the Department of Defense's Worldwide Survey of Health Related Behaviors and the NHSDA, we find illicit drug prevalence rates among military personnel are significantly lower than civilian rates in years after the implementation of the program but not before, suggesting a sizeable deterrence effect. These basic findings are replicated with data from the NLSY. The NLSY are also used to explore sensitivity of the deterrence effect to the probability of detection and severity of punishment, which varied across military branches during the first few years of the program's implementation