Drug law enforcement expenditures and drug-induced deaths

Psychol Rep. 1994 Aug;75(1 Pt 1):57-8. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1994.75.1.57.

Abstract

The association between federal expenditures for drug law enforcement and the number of drug-induced deaths in the USA from 1981 through 1991 was examined. Significant positive associations were found for both numbers of deaths and death rates.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Budgets
  • Cause of Death*
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Drug Overdose / economics
  • Drug Overdose / mortality*
  • Drug and Narcotic Control / economics
  • Drug and Narcotic Control / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Financing, Government / economics
  • Financing, Government / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Psychotropic Drugs / poisoning*
  • Social Control, Formal
  • Substance-Related Disorders / economics
  • Substance-Related Disorders / mortality*
  • United States / epidemiology

Substances

  • Psychotropic Drugs