Opioid Crisis

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This is a collection of papers and articles studying the opioid crisis

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2021: Abouk & Powell, "Can electronic prescribing mandates reduce opioid-related overdoses?",
Economics & Human Biology

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2020: Reider, "Solving the Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just a Public Health Challenge—It’s a Bioethics Challenge", Hasting Center Report

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2019: Rieder, "The painful truth about pain", Nature

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2018: Buchmueller & Carey, "The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare,"American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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2018: Meinhofer, A., "Prescription drug monitoring programs: The role of asymmetric information on drug availability and abuse", American Journal of Health Economics, 4, 504-526.

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2017: Schnell, "Physician behavior in the presence of a secondary market: The case of prescription opioids"

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2016: Meinhofer, A., "War on drugs: Estimating the effect of prescription drug supply-side interventions", SSRN Working Paper