Download or read book What Price Drug Use? The Contribution of Economics to an Evidence-Based Drugs Policy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Economics of the University of Leicester presents the full text of the paper entitled "What Price Drug Use? The Contribution of Economics to an Evidence-Based Drugs Policy," by Ziggy MacDonald. The paper was published in July 2001. The author discusses illicit drug use and the economics of addiction. Under the Rational Addiction model, individuals can consume goods that are addictive and nonaddictive goods.