Prevention, treatment, and law enforcement in a one-state optimal control model of illicit drug consumption

Wetter, Dominique

doi:10.34726/hss.2016.40422

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https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2016.40422
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/6384

Title:

Prevention, treatment, and law enforcement in a one-state optimal control model of illicit drug consumption

Citation:

Wetter, D. (2016). Prevention, treatment, and law enforcement in a one-state optimal control model of illicit drug consumption [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2016.40422

reposiTUm DOI:

10.34726/hss.2016.40422

CatalogPlus:

AC13386500

Publication Type:

Thesis - Diploma Thesis

Hochschulschrift - Diplomarbeit

Language:

English

Authors:

Wetter, Dominique

Advisor:

Tragler, Gernot

Organisational Unit:

E105 - Institut für Stochastik und Wirtschaftsmathematik

Date (published):

2016

Number of Pages:

Keywords:

Optimale Kontrolle; Drogenpolitik; Drogenprävention; Drogentherapie; Law Enforcement

Optimal Control; Drug Policy; Drug Prevention; Drug Treatment; Polizeiliche Maßnahmen

Abstract:

A central question in drug policy is how control efforts should be divided among enforcement, treatment, and prevention. For this regard, Caulkins and Tragler [DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39120-5_2] developed a model to study how the mix of control efforts should vary dynamically over the course of an epidemic. In this thesis, the initiation function of the model of Caulkins and Tragler is changed to a logistic growth function and analysed for comparison. Due to some necessary adjustments of the parameters, a precise comparison turns out to be hardly possible. The results of the different sensitivity analyses regarding some parameters and their comparison between both models are presented.

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