Evans, William N.; Lieber, Ethan M.J; Power, Patrick - 2018
We attribute the recent quadrupling of heroin death rates to the August, 2010 reformulation of an oft …, heroin. Using structural break techniques and variation in substitution risk, we find that opioid consumption stops rising in … August, 2010, heroin deaths begin climbing the following month, and growth in heroin deaths was greater in areas with greater …
