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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares results provide strong evidence that maternal...

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State Drug Control and Illicit Drug Participation

Saffer, Henry - 1999

expenditures on deterring illicit drug use. The empirical model is based on a demand and supply model of drug markets. The effect …. The data employed come from the 1990 and 1991 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Data on state and local … spending for drug related criminal justice and drug related public health programs were merged with the NHSDA. The main …

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Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol

Miron, Jeffrey A. - 1999

homicide rate in the United States. The results document that increases in enforcement of drug and alcohol prohibition have … penalty -- does not alter the conclusion that drug and alcohol prohibition have substantially raised the homicide rate in the …

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The Downward Spiral

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov...

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Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths

Mathur, Neil K.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved...

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The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 14 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana, focusing on studies that have appeared in economics journals as well...

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Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability

Neumark, David; Savych, Bogdan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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

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The Economic Consequences of the Opium War

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western colonial influence was introduced in dozens of so-called treaty ports. We document a turnaround during the 19th century in the nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before...

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Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?

Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use and crime. Using data covering the period 2000-2019 from a variety of … national sources (the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Vital Statistics System … recreational marijuana on hard drug use, arrests, drug overdose deaths, suicides, and treatment admissions. Our analyses show that …

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Recreational Marijuana Laws and the Use of Opioids : Evidence from NSDUH Microdata

Ali, Mir M.; McClellan, Chandler; Mutter, Ryan; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a survey uniquely suited to assessing drug misuse, we examine …

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