ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2025
Improving Policy Evaluations Of The Opioid Crisis.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Choosing an analytic approach: key study design considerations in state policy evaluation.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2026Article
- Global burden and forecast of infectious diseases attributable to drug use: evidence from GBD 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
With fatal opioid overdoses rising steadily between 1999 and 2022, researchers have tried to identify effective policy approaches that can stem the tide and mitigate associated harms. However, policy evaluations intended to inform policy choices may muddy the waters, particularly when they generate inconsistent findings. In this article, we discuss a unifying framework and language for presenting analyses using quasi-experimental methods evaluating opioid policies to facilitate greater understanding of similarities and differences across studies. We discuss key data, methods, and design issues that confront researchers in this space, with the goal of increasing the pace of good science.
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