ArticleJournal of health economics2021
Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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- The association of state policies and opioid analgesic amount dispensed from retail pharmacies.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Estimating price elasticities of demand for pain relief drugs: evidence from Medicare Part D.International journal of health economics and management · 2024Article
- High-Dose Opioid Prescribing in Individuals with Acute Pain: Assessing the Effects of US State Opioid Policies.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Cannabis Laws and Utilization of Medications for the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Nudging to assist opioid tapering among chronic non-malignant pain patients: A systematic scoping review.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- Association between prescription drug monitoring programs use mandates and prescription stimulants received by Medicaid enrollees.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- Prescription drug monitoring programs use mandates and prescription stimulant and depressant quantities.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Association of a State Prescribing Limits Policy with Opioid Prescribing and Long-term Use: an Interrupted Time Series Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Narrative minireview of the spatial epidemiology of substance use disorder in the United States: Who is at risk and where?World journal of clinical cases · 2023Review
- State prescribing cap laws' association with opioid analgesic prescribing and opioid overdose.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Surgeon Variation in Perioperative Opioid Prescribing and Medium- or Long-term Opioid Utilization after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Cross-sectional Analysis.Anesthesiology · 2022Article
- Strategies aimed at preventing long-term opioid use in trauma and orthopaedic surgery: a scoping review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Drug control policy can have unintended consequences by pushing existing users to alternative, possibly more dangerous substances. Policies that target only new users may therefore be especially promising. Using commercial insurance claims data, we provide the first evidence on a set of new policies intended to reduce opioid initiation in the form of limits on initial prescription length. We also provide the first evidence on the impact of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (MA-PDMPs), laws that do not target new users, on initial opioid use. Although initial limit policies reduce the average length of initial prescriptions, they do so primarily by raising the frequency of short prescriptions, resulting in increases in opioids dispensed to new users. In contrast, we find that MA-PDMPs reduce opioids dispensed to new users, even though they do not explicitly set out to do so. Neither policy significantly affects extreme use such as doctor shopping among new patients, because such behavior is very rare.
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