for drug offenses. Unlike other states, California has had a policy of mandatory diversion to drug treatment for non …-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36). Using a rich dataset including current and prior criminal charges from 1995 … through 2005 in California, we examine whether disparities in court dispositions to prison and drug treatment between White …

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

, we find that over a longer time horizon, reformulation stimulated illicit drug markets to grow and evolve. We compare …

Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policy makers for effective interventions … prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs which is a key policy targeting the non-medical use of Rx drugs. Based on objective … utilization rates by actually requiring providers to query the PDMP prior to prescribing a controlled drug, are significantly …

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 …

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 …