Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College and Qatar Campus, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, USA.
Addiction. 2010 Jul;105(7):1156-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02915.x. Epub 2010 Mar 10.
The addiction sciences are intrinsically multi-disciplinary, and economics is among the disciplines that offer useful perspectives on the complex behaviors surrounding substance abuse. This paper summarizes contributions economics has made in the past and could make in the future towards understanding how illegal markets operate, how prices affect use, how use generates various consequences, and how policy shapes all three.
Review of literature, concentrating on illegal drugs as insights concerning markets are particularly salient, although we also mention relevant studies from the alcohol and tobacco fields.
Economics offers tools and topical expertise that usefully complement other disciplines associated traditionally with the addiction sciences. Its value goes far beyond the ability to monetize non-monetary outcomes or to calculate a cost-benefit ratio.
成瘾科学本质上是跨学科的，经济学是提供有关药物滥用相关复杂行为的有用视角的学科之一。本文总结了经济学过去的贡献以及未来在理解非法市场运作方式、价格如何影响使用、使用如何产生各种后果以及政策如何塑造这三个方面的作用。
文献回顾，重点关注非法毒品，因为有关市场的见解特别突出，尽管我们也提到了来自酒精和烟草领域的相关研究。
经济学提供了工具和专题专业知识，与传统上与成瘾科学相关的其他学科相辅相成。它的价值远不止于货币化非货币性结果或计算成本效益比的能力。
