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Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States...
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We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child's life, we measure children's exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … could also have altered the living arrangements of their children. Within a 2SLS framework, we instrument for the cumulative …
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predispose children for depression and suicide. Dietary and behavioral research places new emphasis on cultural aspects of the … etiology of high activity children. MRI studies of children's brains as evidence for this syndrome are variable and …
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We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child’s life, we measure children’s exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … could also have altered the living arrangements of their children. Within a 2SLS framework, we instrument for the cumulative …
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We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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Background: Bayesian regularization can address over-parameterization of age-period-cohort (APC) mortality models, facilitated by a new methodology for comparing fits of Bayesian regularized models. Here Bayesian Lasso is used to shrink slope changes in linear spline fits of the parameters of...
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Over the past two decades deaths from opioids and other drugs have grown to be a major U.S. population health problem, but the magnitude of the crisis varies across the U.S., and explanations for widespread geographic variation in the severity of the drug crisis are limited. An emerging debate...
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We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the duration of initial opioid prescriptions on care received by patients with work-related injuries, focusing on opioid utilization and medical care related to pain management. We...
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