| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25974 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25974 |
| Can Policy Affect Initiation of Addictive Substance Use? Evidence from Opioid Prescribing | |
| Daniel W. Sacks; Alex Hollingsworth; Thuy D. Nguyen; Kosali I. Simon | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-24 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Drug control policy can have unintended consequences by pushing existing users to alternative, possibly more dangerous substances. Policies that target only new users may therefore be especially promising. Using commercial insurance claims data, we provide the first evidence on a set of new policies intended to reduce opioid initiation in the form of limits on initial prescription length. We also provide the first evidence on the impact of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (MA-PDMPs), laws that do not target new users, on initial opioid use. Although initial limit policies reduce the average length of initial prescriptions, they do so primarily by raising the frequency of short prescriptions, resulting in increases in opioids dispensed to new users. In contrast, we find that MA-PDMPs reduce opioids dispensed to new users, even though they do not explicitly set out to do so. Neither policy significantly affects extreme use such as doctor shopping among new patients, because such behavior is very rare. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25974 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583648 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel W. Sacks,Alex Hollingsworth,Thuy D. Nguyen,et al. Can Policy Affect Initiation of Addictive Substance Use? Evidence from Opioid Prescribing. 2019. |
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| w25974.pdf（378KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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