the outcomes considered are: youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, the abuse of prescription opioids, traffic … mortality involving prescription opioids, the effect of legalizing medical marijuana has proven more difficult to gauge and, as …

We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the … opioids, but reduced opioid use among those with prescriptions. We find limited evidence that must-access PDMPs affected …

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 …

previous drug epidemics; this finding is consistent with the pharmacological difference between opioids and stimulant … opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the … outcomes and increased healthcare costs, with limited evidence that opioids (which are designed to reduce chronic pain) have …

We investigate behavioral responses to a staggered disruption in the supply of prescription opioids across U.S. states …: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs … curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids. Physicians respond to monitoring on the extensive margin, limiting the …

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 …