Confronting America's Opioid Crisis: Measuring the Impacts of State Laws on Opioid Misuse
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This paper offers some of the first long-run evidence on important laws addressing America's opioid crisis. Naloxone access laws make the opioid-overdose antidote naloxone more widely available; drug-overdose Good Samaritan laws provide legal immunity to overdose victims and witnesses. I exploit the staggered introduction of these laws across states as well as differences among the same type of law. Enactment of both laws is followed by a 4% increase in illicit drug use. Good Samaritan laws are associated with significantly fewer subsequent opioid deaths, while the effect of naloxone laws is negligible. Naloxone laws are associated with more opioid-related emergency room visits, while Good Samaritan laws are associated with fewer visits. These findings suggest that naloxone and Good Samaritan laws may encourage opioid use.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 3, 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Holderness, George Clifford | |
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| Primary advisor | Einav, Liran | |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
| Subject | Department of Economics |
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| Subject | opioid |
| Subject | drug overdose |
| Subject | naloxone |
| Subject | good samaritan |
| Subject | risk compensation |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yt609qd6967 |
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- Holderness, George Clifford. 2018. "Confronting America's Opioid Crisis: Measuring the Impacts of State Laws on Opioid Misuse." Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yt609qd6967
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