Recent work finds that medical marijuana laws reduce the daily doses filled for opioid
analgesics among Medicare Part-D and Medicaid enrollees, as well as population-wide …

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 …

The seventh edition of this field-leading textbook provides an accessible and rigorous
presentation of major theories of persuasion and their applications to a variety of real-world …

This paper examines the relationship between the minimum high school dropout age and
juvenile arrest rates by exploiting state-level variation in dropout age laws. County-level …

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 …

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 …

Although policymakers and law enforcement officials argue that medical marijuana laws
(MMLs)“send the wrong message” to young people, previous studies have produced no …

More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical
purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have …

Drug-overdose deaths, which have more than doubled over the past decade, represent a
growing public-health concern. Though substance-abuse treatment may be effective in …

The relationship between insurance coverage and use of specialty substance use disorder
(SUD) treatment is not well understood. In this study, we add to the literature by examining …