effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and the receipt of treatment from a mental health facility …

improve when patients become more compliant to drug therapy. At the same time, we are able to infer valuable information on … the role that drug co-payment can have on compliance, and as a consequence on health outcomes, by exploiting the presence … of two natural experiments during the period of analysis. Our results show that drug co-payment has a strong effect on …

Drug overdoses involving opioid analgesics have increased dramatically since 1999, representing one of the United … the introduction of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program (Part D) as a large and differential shock to the … who did not experience any change in prescription drug benefits. The evidence suggests that increased opioid supply is …