: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs …

pharmacies can be attributed to drug diversion. In addition, we find that independent pharmacies' OxyContin dispensing is higher … independent pharmacies are more likely to be linked to drug diversion. First, they have stronger financial incentives due to lower … expected costs of misdoing. Second, they may have less information on patients' prescription drug use history. Prescription …

search of an effective therapeutic drug. Experimental drugs developed for other infections, such as Gilead's remdesivir, have … developing broad-spectrum drugs.These drugs, however, confront a market failure: what firm will invest millions developing a drug …-spectrum antiviral drugs developed up to phase III clinical trials in the FDA drug approval process. I also emphasize the importance of …

swift and punitive response to illicit drug markets in the 1980s and early 1990s, which involved harsh sentences, increased … develop databases in order to track prescriptions. Pain clinics and prescription “pill mills” proliferated. For drug companies …