Benefit-Cost Approach to Evaluation of Programs (From Controlling Drugs: International Handbook for Psychoactive Drug Classification, Richard Blum, Daniel Bovet, et, al., 1974, P 261-283)

• NCJ Number: 162180
• Author(s): R C Lind
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 23 pages
• Sale Source: Jossey-Bass Publishers
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DCC

Annotation

This paper describes a framework for decisionmaking as it pertains to setting drug-control policies and selecting programs to implement them, and considers how to evaluate the controls established by the Vienna Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

Abstract

In developing a framework for decisionmaking the author addresses the problems of defining objectives and outputs, of measurement, of developing alternative programs to achieve given objectives, of predicting program performance, of evaluation, and of presenting a display of the results to the decisionmaker in a way that facilitates the decision. The Vienna Convention sets up the machinery for international cooperation in solving problems related to drugs, establishes specific control and enforcement procedures that require action by participating governments, and deals with licensing, inspection, prescriptions, recordkeeping, and export/import controls. The purpose here of evaluating the Convention is not the evaluation itself but to demonstrate what such an evaluation should include.