cocaine is added to this survey from the System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence (STRIDE) maintained by the Drug … a little more than 3 percent. Surely, both proponents and opponents of drug legalization should take account of this …

revived. This paper attempts to inform this debate by providing some evidence on the effects of illicit drug prices and legal … sanctions for drug possession and sale on youth drug use. Data on cocaine and marijuana use by high school seniors are taken …

effects from regulations targeting one drug. Using weekly prescription data spanning 2007-2017, this study finds that …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence …

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 …

.0%). Macroeconomic shocks also increase the overall drug death rate, but this increase is driven by rising opioid deaths. Our findings …

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid prescribing history. While few providers …