This research paper investigates whether payments made to physicians by opioid manufacturers influence their prescribing behaviour for opioid medications. The relationship has been explored primarily using payments data from CMS OpenPayments, prescribing data from Medicare Part D Provider...

The modern law of induced patent infringement contradicts the Patent Act and violates the First Amendment. As currently applied, the law unconstitutionally restricts speech, discourages the entry of generic drugs, and helps keep medicine prices high. Under current doctrine, a generic drugmaker...

Opioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis, which began by the mid-1990s and continues through the time of writing, causes 136 fatal opioid overdoses each day and costs the U.S. at least $596 billion each year. These...

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...

This paper highlights the complex and contested relationship between drugs and development policies globally. It uses a recent experience in Thailand to showcase the link between drugs and development policies while highlighting the difficult international terrain for forging a common United...

For decades, international governments and the Peruvian state have worked to reduce illicit coca cultivation in valleys that were once among the largest global producers of coca. The principal strategies used in these interventions are drug crop eradication and alternative development (AD), both...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted problems regarding scarcity of lifesaving medicines. During pandemics and epidemics, a sudden surge in demand for medicines is often unmatched on the supply side. Moreover, the same intellectual property rights that are supposed to incentivize their creation...

Ayurveda medicine system has a strong background in Indian culture. Modernized practices derived from Ayurvedic culture is used as alternative medicine in the field of Ayurveda. In this system of medicine, there is a belief that, through Ayurveda protocols, any substance can be changed into...