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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w27544
来源ID	Working Paper 27544
	The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed
	Janet Currie; Hannes Schwandt
发表日期	2020-07-20
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Without the opioid epidemic, American life expectancy would not have declined prior to 2020. In turn, the epidemic was sparked by the development and marketing of a new generation of prescription opioids and provider behavior is still helping to drive it. There is little relationship between the opioid crisis and contemporaneous measures of labor market opportunity. Cohorts and areas that experienced poor labor market conditions do show lagged increases in opioid mortality, but the effect is modest relative to the scale of the epidemic. Instead, we argue that there are specific policies and features of the U.S. health care market that led to the current crisis. It will not be possible to quickly reverse depressed economic conditions, but it is possible to implement policies that would reduce the number of new opioid addicts and save the lives of many of those who are already addicted.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w27544
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585217
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Janet Currie,Hannes Schwandt. The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed. 2020.

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