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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26988 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26988 |
The Evolving Consequences of OxyContin Reformulation on Drug Overdoses | |
David Powell; Rosalie Liccardo Pacula | |
发表日期 | 2020-04-13 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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 reduced access to abusable prescription opioids. In this paper, we find that over a longer time horizon, reformulation stimulated illicit drug markets to grow and evolve. We compare overdose trajectories in areas more exposed to reformulation, defined as states with higher rates of non-medical OxyContin use before reformulation, to less exposed areas. More exposed areas experienced disproportionate increases in fatal overdoses involving synthetic opioids (fentanyl) and non-opioid substances like cocaine, suggesting that these new epidemics are related to the same factors driving the rise in heroin deaths. Instead of just short-term substitution from prescription opioid to heroin overdoses, the transition to illicit markets spurred by reformulation led to growth in the overall overdose rate to unprecedented levels. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26988 |
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/584660 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Powell,Rosalie Liccardo Pacula. The Evolving Consequences of OxyContin Reformulation on Drug Overdoses. 2020. |
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