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The Drug Crisis and the Living Arrangements of Children

Buckles, Kasey - 2020

We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child's life, we measure children's exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … could also have altered the living arrangements of their children. Within a 2SLS framework, we instrument for the cumulative …

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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 duration of initial opioid prescriptions on care received by patients with work-related injuries, focusing on opioid utilization and medical care related to pain management. We...

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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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Dangerous Prescribing and Healthcare Fragmentation : Evidence from Opioids

Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; Sacarny, Adam; Zhou, R. Annetta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Fragmented healthcare received from many different physicians results in higher costs and lower quality, but does it contribute to dangerous opioid prescribing? The effect is theoretically ambiguous because fragmentation can trigger costly coordination failures but also permits greater...

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When Innovation Goes Wrong : Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic

Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The fivefold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief - physical pain and despair - are high but largely unchanging. The primary shift is in supply, primarily of new...

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Fighting Abuse with Prescription Tracking : Mandatory Drug Monitoring and Intimate Partner Violence

Dave, Dhaval; Erten, Bilge; Hummel, David W.; Keskin, Pinar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-users through adverse spillovers on children, families, and communities. We study the spillover effects of a supply-side policy …

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Investigating the Complexity of Naloxone Distribution : Which Policies Matter for Pharmacies and Potential Recipients

Smart, Rosanna; Powell, David; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. State efforts to reduce overdose deaths by removing barriers to naloxone have recently focused on pharmacy channels, but the specifics of these laws and the contexts in which...

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Opioid Use and Employment Outcomes : Evidence from the U.S. Military

Alpert, Abby E.; Schwab, Steve; Ukert, Benjamin D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

There is significant interest in understanding the labor market consequences of the opioid epidemic, but little is known about how opioid use impacts on-the-job productivity. We analyze the impact of opioid initiation in the emergency department (ED) on workforce outcomes in the Military using...

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Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-up of Naloxone

Jacobson, Mireille; Powell, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We conducted a field experiment that randomized advertisements, advertisement content, and prices across 2,204 counties in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising increased website users but only impacted purchases...

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Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses

Moore, Timothy J.; Olney, William W.; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The U.S. opioid crisis is now driven by fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that currently accounts for 90% of all opioid deaths. Fentanyl is smuggled from abroad, with little evidence on how this happens. We show that a substantial amount of fentanyl smuggling occurs via legal trade flows,...

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