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We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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Background: Bayesian regularization can address over-parameterization of age-period-cohort (APC) mortality models, facilitated by a new methodology for comparing fits of Bayesian regularized models. Here Bayesian Lasso is used to shrink slope changes in linear spline fits of the parameters of...
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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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We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the …
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previous drug epidemics; this finding is consistent with the pharmacological difference between opioids and stimulant … substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the …
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Fragmented healthcare received from many different physicians results in higher costs and lower quality, but does it contribute to dangerous opioid prescribing? The effect is theoretically ambiguous because fragmentation can trigger costly coordination failures but also permits greater...
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