/sexual assault and robbery. Measures of alcohol or drug involved violent crimes are also considered. The data come from the 1992 … beer taxes will also lead to lower probabilities of alcohol- or drug-involved assault. Decriminalizing marijuana will …

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

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

The continuing drug overdose crisis in the U.S. has highlighted the urgent need for greater access to treatment. This … visits for substance abuse issues among nearby residents. We find that drug-related ER visits increase by 16.6% after a … that expanding access to treatment results in significant reductions in morbidity related to drug abuse …

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 …

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