Values, beliefs and policy options: Beyond prevalence-centric prohibitions
| Number | 4143 |
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| Project manager | Ole Røgeberg |
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| Client | Norges forskningsråd |
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| Client project no. | 240235 |
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| Participants | Daniel Bergsvik
Simen Gaure
Hans Olav Melberg |
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| Period | 2015 - 2019 |
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Project description
While drug policy was long dominated by a prevalence-focused criminal
justice approach, recent years has seen increased policy variation as
legislatures in America and Europe have adjusted policy to take account of
the health and welfare of users, harms associated with illegal markets and
the costs of enforcement policies.
The project aims at improving the foundation for policy judgments. Drug
policy is a complex field, in that policies have effects on a variety of different
outcomes. Considered policy judgments will thus reflect values (the
outcomes emphasized and their relative weight), causal models (harms,
costs and benefits of policies), and which policy menu one sees as politically
relevant. We will develop a sets of empirical indicators that measure current
policy efforts and current outcomes, structured so as to improve policy by
clarifying relevant tradeoffs. Finally, in line with the project's core idea that a
broader set of outcomes need to be considered by policy, we will examine
a broad set of social and economic outcomes of opiate maintenance
treatment (OMT), and examine effects treatment programs may have on
non-participants and overdose mortality through their effect on e.g. drug
markets.
Publications
Scientific Journal
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| Rolles, Steve, Anne Katrin Schlag, Fiona Measham, Lawrence Phillips, David Nutte, Daniel Bergsvik, Ole Røgeberg | A multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for evaluating and appraising government policy responses to non medical heroin use | 2021 | International Journal of Drug Policy vol 91, 103180 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Røgeberg, Ole | Addiction Classics: The theory of Rational Addiction | 2020 | Addiction Vol 115(1), 184-187 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Røgeberg, Ole | A meta-analysis of the crash risk of cannabis-positive drivers in culpability studies - Avoiding interpretational bias | 2019 | Accident Analysis & Prevention Vol 123, 69-78 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Røgeberg, Ole | Prohibition, regulation or laissez faire: The policy trade-offs of cannabis policy | 2018 | International Journal of Drug Policy vol 56, 153-161 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Bergsvik, Daniel and Ole Røgeberg | Assessing the effect of public health information by incentivised risk estimation: An example on Swedish snus | 2018 | International Journal of Drug Policy Vol 54, 51-57 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Røgeberg, O., D Bergsvik, LD Phillips, J Van Amsterdam, N Eastwood, et al | A new approach to formulating and appraising drug policy: a multi-criterion decision analysis applied to alcohol and cannabis regulation | 2018 | International Journal of Drug Policy vol 56, 144-152 | [PDF] [DOI] |
| Røgeberg, Ole and Rune Elvik | The effects of cannabis intoxication on motor vehicle collision revisited and revised | 2016 | Addiction | [PDF] [DOI] |
