In September 1997, the anti-obesity drugs Pondimin and Redux, ingredients in the popular drug combination fen … how consumers respond to drug withdrawals. In theory, remaining drugs in the therapeutic class could enjoy competitive … benefits, or suffer negative spillovers, from the withdrawal of a competing drug. Our findings suggest that, while the …

against consumer surplus losses from restricted access. In both public and private prescription drug insurance plans, issuers … utilize preferred pharmacy networks to reduce drug prices. We show that, in the Medicare Part D program, drug plans with more … copays, pay lower retail drug prices. We then use estimates of plan and pharmacy demand to estimate the first-order costs and …

We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the …

previous drug epidemics; this finding is consistent with the pharmacological difference between opioids and stimulant … substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the …

in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising …

of fentanyl smuggling occurs via legal trade flows, with a positive relationship between state-level imports and drug …