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Strulik, Holger - 2019

In this paper, I propose an economic theory that addresses the epidemic character of opioid epidemics. I consider a community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction and live through two periods. In the first period...

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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2020

to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and have a close proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if at … least one parent is using illicit opioids, the likelihood of the child using increases from 1.1 to 6.1%. For prescription … opioids, we observe an increase from 4.6 to 7.7%. Both associations are stable and do not change when controlling for …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2020

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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2021

births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and a new proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if … at least one parent is using illicit opioids, the likelihood of the child using increases from 1.1 to 7.1%. For … prescription opioids, we observe an increase from 4.6 to 7.7%. Both associations are stable and do not change when controlling for …

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