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Generational Cohort Effects on Trends in the Drug Overdose Mortality Epidemic in the United States
Venter, Gary - 2017
Background: Bayesian regularization can address over-parameterization of age-period-cohort (APC) mortality models … periods to vary by age. It is applied to overdose mortality rates from the 1999-2015 CDC WONDER data for white non … this group, observed overdose mortality rates increased most markedly for the youngest and oldest ages. Early in the period …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891244
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When innovation goes wrong : technological regress and the opioid epidemic
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the … 35 (2021) 4, pp. 171-196
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Predicting high-risk opioid prescriptions before they are given
Hastings, Justine S.; Howison, Mark; Inman, Sarah E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026282
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When Innovation Goes Wrong : Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The fivefold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief - physical pain and despair - are high but largely unchanging. The primary shift is in supply, primarily of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533422
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Eliminating the US drug lag : implications for drug safety
Olson, Mary K. - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 47 (2013) 1, pp. 1-30
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The Economics Behind the Epidemic : Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843718
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Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability
Neumark, David; Savych, Bogdan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660049
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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191077
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Dangerous Prescribing and Healthcare Fragmentation : Evidence from Opioids
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; Sacarny, Adam; Zhou, R. Annetta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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