associated with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-mandated clinical trials of new drugs. But the relationship between the patent … system and other regulation of drugs is more complex than this simple formulation suggests. Drug regulation operates in … profitability by diverting profits elsewhere. At the same time, resistance to high drug prices is prompting new state and federal …

Objective: To estimate the causal effect of a medical marijuana initiative on suicide risk. In 1996, California … suicide. Significance of the effects were assessed with permutation tests.Results: The 1996 legalization resulted in mean … total suicide is driven by gun suicide alone …

predispose children for depression and suicide. Dietary and behavioral research places new emphasis on cultural aspects of the …

This paper provides the first estimates of the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on drug overdose deaths … that a one standard deviation increase in UI generosity during the Great Recession ($10,200) increases the drug overdose … death rate per 100,000 by an average of 0.22 (1.8%). The increase in drug overdose deaths occurs with a lag and is …

effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and the receipt of treatment from a mental health facility …

improve when patients become more compliant to drug therapy. At the same time, we are able to infer valuable information on … the role that drug co-payment can have on compliance, and as a consequence on health outcomes, by exploiting the presence … of two natural experiments during the period of analysis. Our results show that drug co-payment has a strong effect on …