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Insurance Expansions and Children’s Use of Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Hamersma, Sarah - 2018

specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …

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Mental Health, Substance Use, and Child Maltreatment

Ali, Mir M.; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child … consequences for children who experience maltreatment, both in the short- and long-term. Parental mental health and substance use …

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Health Insurance and Traffic Fatalities : The Effects of Substance Use Disorder Parity Laws

Popovici, Ioana - 2017

Each year, approximately 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes in the United States, while psychoactive drugs are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic crashes. In this study, we investigate whether state-specific parity laws for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have...

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Ridesharing and Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Lennon, Conor; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine whether ridesharing provides a meaningful transportation alternative for those who require ongoing healthcare. Specifically, we combine variation in UberX entry across the U.S. with the Treatment Episode Data Set to estimate the effect of ridesharing on admissions to substance use...

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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017

We examine Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs with a differences-in-differences...

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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis, which began by the mid-1990s and continues through the time of writing, causes 136 fatal opioid overdoses each day and costs the U.S. at least $596 billion each year. These...

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Insurance Coverage and Provision of Opioid Treatment : Evidence from Medicare

Agniel, Denis; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Maclean, Johanna … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Opioid overdose deaths in older adults have increased substantially over the past two decades. This increase has occurred despite the availability of effective treatments. Methadone, one of just three medications approved by the Food & Drug Administration for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment,...

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The Effect of E-cigarette Taxes on Substance Use

Dave, Dhaval; Liang, Yang; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a "gateway" to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. This study is the first to explore the effects of ENDS taxes on substance use. We...

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Can Anti-Vaping Policies Curb Drinking Externalities? Evidence from E-Cigarette Taxation and Traffic Fatalities

Dave, Dhaval; Liang, Yang; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Teenage drinking is a top public health concern, generating social costs of over $28 billion per year, including substantial external costs associated with alcohol-related traffic fatalities. At the same time, the high rate of electronic cigarette ("e-cigarette") use among teenagers has become a...

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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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