There are numerous analytic and methodological limitations to current measures of drug market activity. This paper explores the structure of markets and individual user behavior to provide an integrated understanding of behavioral and economic (and market) aspects of illegal drug use with an aim toward developing improved procedures for measurement. This involves understanding the social processes that structure illegal distribution networks and drug users' interactions with them. These networks are where and how social behaviors, prices, and markets for illegal drugs intersect. Our focus is upon getting an up close measurement of these activities. Building better measures of consumption behaviors necessitates building better rapport with subjects than typically achieved with one-time surveys in order to overcome withholding and underreporting and to get a comprehensive understanding of the processes involved. This can be achieved through repeated interviews and observations of behaviors. This paper also describes analytic advances that could be adopted to direct this inquiry including behavioral templates, and insights into the economic valuation of labor inputs and cash expenditures for various illegal drugs. Additionally, the paper makes recommendations to funding organizations for developing the mechanisms that would support behavioral scientists to weigh specimens and to collect small samples for laboratory analysis-by providing protection from the potential for arrest. The primary focus is upon U.S. markets. The implications for other countries are discussed.

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目前对药品市场活动的衡量有许多分析和方法上的限制。本文探讨了市场结构和个人用户行为,以提供对非法药物使用的行为和经济 (和市场) 方面的综合理解,旨在开发改进的测量程序。这涉及了解构成非法分销网络的社会过程以及吸毒者与他们的互动。这些网络是非法药物的社会行为,价格和市场相交的地方和方式。我们的重点是对这些活动进行近距离测量。与一次性调查相比,建立更好的消费行为衡量标准需要与受试者建立更好的融洽关系,以克服预扣和漏报并全面了解所涉及的过程。这可以通过反复采访和观察行为来实现。本文还介绍了可以用来指导此查询的分析进展,包括行为模板,以及对各种非法药物的劳动力投入和现金支出的经济评估的见解。此外,本文还向资助组织提出了建议,以开发支持行为科学家称重标本并收集小样本进行实验室分析的机制-通过提供保护免受逮捕的可能性。主要重点是美国市场。讨论了对其他国家的影响。

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