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The Contributions of Socioeconomic and Opioid Supply Factors to Geographic Variation in U.S. Drug Mortality Rates
Monnat, Shannon - 2019
severity of the drug crisis are limited. An emerging debate is whether geographic differences in drug mortality rates are … county-level non-Hispanic white drug mortality rates for 2000-02 and 2014-16 and several socioeconomic and opioid supply …, average non-Hispanic white drug mortality rates are highest and increased the most in large metro counties. In 2014-16, the …
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Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths
Mathur, Neil K.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved...
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Explaining spatial disparities in fatal drug overdoses : 1970-2016
Davlasheridze, Meri; Goetz, Stephan J. - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 51 (2021) 3, pp. 292-316
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The Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Abuse, Mortality, and Crime
Doleac, Jennifer L.; Mukherjee, Anita - 2021
including increased access to naloxone, a drug that can save lives when administered during an overdose. There is a concern that … measure the effects of broadening access to this lifesaving drug. We find that broadened access led to more opioid …
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Do medical marijuana laws reduce addictions and deaths related to pain killers?
Powell, David; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Jacobson, Mireille - In: Journal of health economics 58 (2018), pp. 29-42
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Drivers of the fatal drug epidemic
Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Journal of health economics 64 (2019), pp. 25-42
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The opioid epidemic : causes and consequences
Arteaga Cabrales, Carolina; Barone, Victoria - 2021
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The opioid epidemic : a geography in two phases
McGranahan, David A.; Parker, Timothy S. - 2021
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Synthetic Opioids Should Be Excluded When Examining the Association Between Cannabis Laws and Opioid Overdose Mortality
Shi, Yuyan; Liang, Di - 2019
We read with great interest the recent work in PNAS by Shover et al. revisiting the relationship between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality. They expand the 2014 Bachhuber et al. by adding 7 recent years of mortality data to cover a longer study period 1999-2017. They suggest...
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The Effect of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries on Opioid and Heroin Overdose Mortality
Garin, Julio; Pohl, Vincent; Smith, Rhet A. - 2019
Opioid overdose is the most common cause of accidental death in the United States and no policy response has been able to contain this epidemic to date. We examine whether local access to medical cannabis can reduce opioid-related mortality. Using a unique data set of medical cannabis...
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