Popovici, Ioana; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; French, … - 2017
Each year, 10,000 individuals die in alcohol-impaired traffic accidents in the United States, while psychoactive drugs … are involved in 20% of all fatal traffic accidents. We investigate whether state parity laws for substance use disorder … (SUD) treatment have the unintended benefit of reducing fatal traffic accidents. Parity laws compel insurers to cover SUD …