Future studies should also evaluate other types of interventions such as packaging and traceability technologies, criminal enforcement laws, price control, as well as interventions that can improve the demand side.
Non-enforcement and price discounting represent two "voluntary" measures that are taken by brand companies to reduce the price of drugs.
Finally, would this enforcement mechanism raise prices for U.S. consumers?
In Great Britain, a governmental committee recommended strongly against collective sanctions and enforcement of resale price maintenance agreements, in sharp contrast to earlier governmental investigations of the subject.
"We would support any legislation that ensures appropriate privacy and civil liberties protections, while preserving essential authorities that our intelligence and law enforcement professionals need," Price said.
Whatever the price, "enforcement will not work," said Romesh Bhattacharji, a former narcotics commissioner of India who has investigated the Afghan situation for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
More audacious policies such as automated enforcement or congestion pricing [17, 20] as well as the promotion of innovative equipment and vehicles, or waterways and rail transport [14, 19, 26] are becoming increasingly popular.
We conclude that viable electronic communication network designs which incorporate expandable limit orders to encourage block-trading must also provide escape valves, such as the periodic enforcement of strict price-time priority, to limit the negative externality imposed on those waiting to trade.
Then, we quantify and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed hybrid schemes by investigating whether pre-set objectives (enforcement of permit price bounds and reduction of the compliance costs for relevant companies) can be accomplished while maintaining the original environmental targets.
When it comes to the ostensible targets of drug enforcement -- the price, availability and purity of illicit drugs -- the drug war has driven these measurements in the exact wrong direction.
