We examine how deaths and emergency department (ED) visits related to use of opioid
analgesics (opioids) and other drugs vary with macroeconomic conditions. As the county …

This study examines the contributions of the medium-run evolution of local economies and
of changes in the “drug environment'in explaining county-level changes in drug and related …

Importance Fading economic opportunity has been hypothesized to be an important factor
associated with the US opioid overdose crisis. Automotive assembly plant closures are …

Background The global or multinational scientific evidence on the distribution of opioid
fatality is unknown. Hence, the current study collects epidemiological characteristics to shed …

ABSTRACT The United States is in the midst of a fatal drug epidemic. This study uses data
from the Multiple Cause of Death Files to examine the extent to which increases in county …

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic may present special challenges for residential
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facilities, which may lack infrastructure and support …

Do minimum wages and the earned income tax credit (EITC) mitigate rising “deaths of
despair?” We leverage state variation in these policies over time to estimate event study and …

This chapter uses quarterly county-level data from 2006 to 2014 to examine the direction of
causality in the relationship between per capita opioid prescription rates and employment-to …

Background Prescription opioid (PO) overdose deaths increased sharply over the last
decade. Changes in PO deaths in combination with other psychoactive substances may …

Without the opioid epidemic, American life expectancy would not have declined prior to
2020. The epidemic was sparked by the development and marketing of a new generation of …