Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the … continuation. Further, studies suggest that opioids increase crime, although the link is not as strong as has been observed in … substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the …