The Visibility of Illicit Drugs: Implications for Community-Based Drug Control Strategies
Leonard Saxe, PhD,
Charles Kadushin, PhD,
Andrew Beveridge, PhD,
David Livert, MS,
Elizabeth Tighe, PhD,
David Rindskopf, PhD,
Julie Ford, PhD and
Archie Brodsky, BA
Leonard Saxe, Charles Kadushin, Elizabeth Tighe, and Archie Brodsky are with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Andrew Beveridge is with the Sociology Program, Queens College & Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. David Livert is with the Psychology Program, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. David Rindskopf is with the Educational Psychology Program, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Julie Ford is with the National Development and Research Institutes, New York, NY.
FIGURE 1—Estimated percentages of respondents frequently observing drug sales, using any illicit drugs in the previous month, and meeting dependence criteria, by level of neighborhood disadvantage: Fighting Back Evaluation, 19951999.
Note. Values represent empiric Bayes estimates derived from the full multilevel logistic model.