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Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance

Jansen, Mark - 2020

Appendix available at "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3324720" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3324720.I examine the impact of the opioid epidemic on subprime auto lending. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I find that county-level increases in opioid abuse cause an increase in loan defaults....

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Why the drug war endures : local and transnational linkages in the North and Central America drug trades

Farfán-Méndez, Cecilia; Le Cour Grandmaison, Romain; … - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 4 (2022) 2, pp. 102-112

Despite the well-documented human costs of the war on drugs, and the growing evidence of the environmental impacts of illicit economies, the militarized repression of the illicit drug trade remains a central hemispheric security and cooperation strategy in Northern and Central American...

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A history of opium commodity chains in Mexico, 1900-1950

Fernández Velázquez, Juan Antonio; Smith, Benjamin T. - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 4 (2022) 2, pp. 113-127

Classic treatments of both the opium industry and the international drug trade tend to leave out Mexico’s opium …

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American cartel : inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry

Higham, Scott; Horwitz, Sari - 2022 - First edition

"AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing...

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The hard sell : crime and punishment at an opioid startup

Hughes, Evan - 2022 - First edition

The mentor and the protégé -- The big bet -- The playbook -- The rookies -- The ecosystem -- The salesman -- The program -- The stand-off -- The performer -- The spiel -- The whistleblower -- The whales -- An interloper -- 'Let's get a few more' -- Fall guy -- 'It's going down' -- The pyramid...

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Whose view is it anyway? : media coverage of litigation in for-profit firms' role in the opioid crisis

Gratz, Elizabeth T.; Sarkees, Matthew E.; Bone, Paula … - In: Journal of marketing theory and practice : JMTP 30 (2022) 4, pp. 440-456

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The hazards of unwinding the prescription opioid epidemic : implications for child maltreatment

Evans, Mary F.; Harris, Matthew C.; Kessler, Lawrence M. - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 4, pp. 192-231

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Pathways into opioid dependence : evidence from practice variation in emergency departments

Eichmeyer, Sarah; Zhang, Jonathan - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 4, pp. 271-300

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The peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India

Bauer, Rolf - 2019

The creation of a system -- The functioning of a system -- A local-level analysis of an opium district : Saran -- The …"The Peasant Production of Opium in 19th Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants … who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer …

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Dave, Dhaval - 2018

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...

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