constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying …There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. The structural model …

community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction … model consider the recreational use of prescription OPRs and an interaction between income, pain, and addiction. … and live through two periods. In the first period they consider whether to treat pain with opioid pain relievers (OPRs …

opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov chains are estimated …To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse … from the US data for the college and non–college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction …

accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that … can be treated by pain relief medication. Some individuals treated with opioid pain relievers develop addiction, which … calibrate the model for a benchmark American and investigate the comparative dynamics of alternative drug characteristics, pain …