Historique
Périodique
Drug demand - initiation, continuation and quitting
(La demande de drogues - initiation, poursuite et arrêt de la consommation.)
Auteur(s) :
BRETTEVILLE-JENSEN, A. L.
Année
2006
Page(s) :
491-516
Sous-type de document :
Revue de la littérature / Literature review
Langue(s) :
Français
Refs biblio. :
96
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus géographique
NORVEGE
;
INTERNATIONAL
Thésaurus mots-clés
ELASTICITE
;
INITIATION
;
THEORIE DE L'ESCALADE
;
PRIX
;
ECONOMIE
;
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
DEMANDE
;
MODELE
;
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
HEROINE
;
CANNABIS
;
AMPHETAMINE
;
ABSTINENCE
Note générale :
De Economist, 2006, 154, (4 (The economics of illicit drugs)), 491-516
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
As illicit drug use inflicts considerable harm on users, non-using persons and society, there is an urgent need to better understand demand. Unlawfulness and addictiveness separate the consumption of narcotic drugs from the consumption of other commodities. This paper reviews economic approaches to the task of analysing drug consumption and discusses some recent contributions to the field. We find it useful to apply a threefold division to a users career: the initiation phase, the continuation phase and the quitting phase. First, however, we present an analysis of drug injectors heroin demand based on a large set of personal interviews (n = 2882) and illustrate some of the problems affecting empirical studies in this field. An estimated price elasticity of -0.77 and income elasticity of 0.56 suggest a high level of responsiveness to economic incentives among heavy drug users.
Affiliation :
Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS), Post Box 565 Sentrum, 0105 Oslo. Email : alb@sirus.no
Norvège. Norway.
Norvège. Norway.
Cote :
A03432