ImpacTeen researchers have been leaders in investigating the effects of price on the demand for tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. In researching the effect of price on marijuana use among youth, the paper's authors employed data on marijuana prices and potency from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Intelligence, and data on the demand for marijuana among a nationally representative sample of American high school seniors from the annual Monitoring the Future Survey conducted by UM researchers. The National Institute on Drug Abuse funds the survey.
The ImpacTeen and YES! projects make up the Bridging the Gap initiative, a five-year interdisciplinary partnership of nationally recognized substance abuse experts in economics, etiology, epidemiology, law, political science, public policy, psychology and sociology. Bridging the Gap is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest health philanthropy.
The authors of "Marijuana and Youth" are Bridging the Gap researchers Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, RAND; Michael Grossman, National Bureau of Economic Research; Chaloupka, UIC; Patrick M. O'Malley and Lloyd D. Johnston, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; and Matthew C. Farrelly, Research Triangle Institute.
UIC's Health Research and Policy Centers administers the ImpacTeen project and serves as the overall coordinating center for the Bridging the Gap initiative. ImpacTeen, with UM's YES! project, is building on existing information about youth alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use and abuse and collecting data on trends, markets, policies, legislation, enforcement, treatment, educational programs, adver
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Contact: Jody Oesterreicher
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312-996-8277
University of Illinois at Chicago
8-Oct-2000