We review quasi-experimental studies that examine the relationship of opioids to health,
healthcare, and crime in the US Our findings align with the general perception that the …

Pain Physician: March/April 2017; 20: 111-138 112 www. painphysicianjournal. com people
who were helped by the law, seemingly ignoring those Americans who were hurt with much …

At least 2.3 million people in the US have an opioid use disorder, less than 40% of whom
receive evidence-based treatment. Buprenorphine used as part of medication-assisted …

We examine the effect of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on
substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization and financing. We combine data on …

This study uses a difference‐in‐differences design within an event‐study framework to
examine how state decisions to expand Medicaid following the passage of the Affordable …

Recent evidence suggests that the short-term transition of the opioid crisis from prescription
opioids to heroin can be attributed to the reformulation of OxyContin, which substantially …

The objective of this study was to assess trends in health insurance coverage, health service
utilization, and health care access among working-age adults with and without disabilities …

This research investigates racial and ethnic disparities in outpatient substance use disorder
treatment completion and duration in treatment, for different substances, across the US …

Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the
United States is more than two decades into the opioid crisis-the cause of tens of thousands …

Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past decade underscore
the need to increase access to treatment among people with substance use disorders …