Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Policy

3 credits · Undergraduate

Despite many pharmacological, behavioral, and economic parallels, policies regarding tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin have evolved independently. Critics of the war on drugs call for legalization, while some critics of "big tobacco" have called for its prohibition. The purpose of this course will be to evaluate these debates from a policy analytic perspective, drawing on theory and research from the behavioral sciences, epidemiology, and economics.