Studies

Drug Testing Can Positively Influence Parolee Employment and Education

In a paper published in the March 2008 Journal of Quantitative Criminology, a RAND researcher has found “evidence linking drug testing with positive employment and education outcomes for individuals recently released to parole supervision”. There is a summary is available on the RAND Drug Policy Research Center site.

The report is not entirely positive, however. To [...]

Illicit drug use by American teens continues gradual decline in 2007

Results of the 2007 Monitoring the Future survey where released at the White House by
President Bush on December 11, 2007. The National Institute on Drug Abusesponsors the study, and the University of
Michigan designed and conducted the study. The study has been performed annually for 32 years.
The proportion of 8th graders reporting use of an illicit drug [...]