The R Street Responds series provides scholarly reviews of recently published studies, articles, policy-related proposals or critiques of our authors’ work.
R Street Responds
Publications
Review of: Nick Kerman, et al., “‘It’s not just injecting drugs’: Supervised consumption sites and the social determinants of health,” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 213 (Aug. 1, 2020), p….
Introduced by chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act (OBCSA) is a conglomeration of several bills in the United States…
Review of: “National Strategy for Critical And Emerging Technologies,” The White House, October 2020. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/National-Strategy-for-CET.pdf.
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Review of: Tom P Freeman et al., “Cannabidiol for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: a phase 2a, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, adaptive Bayesian trial,” The Lancet…
Electronic cigarettes were originally introduced onto the U.S. market in the early 2000s as a potential tool to help individuals quit smoking combustible cigarettes. In the intervening years, their…
Review of: Shira Goldenberg et al., “Police-related barriers to harm reduction linked to non-fatal overdose among sex workers who use drugs: Results of a community-based cohort in Metro Vancouver,…
Review by: Chelsea Boyd
Almost as soon as China released the first COVID-19 statistics, scientists noticed some unexpected demographic characteristics among hospitalized cases. For example, early…
Review by: Chelsea Boyd
Officials have referred to youth e-cigarette use as an “epidemic” and have continued to sound alarms that vaping lures a new generation to a lifetime of nicotine use….
Reviewed by: Stacey McKenna
Review of: Toby Lea et al., “Microdosing psychedelics: Motivations, subjective effects and harm reduction,” International Journal of Drug Policy (2020).
In…
A Review of: Rick Kosterman et al., “Adult social environments and the use of combustible and electronic cigarettes: Opportunities for reducing smoking in the 30s,” Nicotine and Tobacco Research…