| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28873 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28873 |
| When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic | |
| David M. Cutler; Edward L. Glaeser | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-05-31 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The fourfold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief – physical pain and despair – are high and in many cases rising, but their increase was nowhere near as large as the increase in deaths. The primary shift is in supply, primarily of new forms of allegedly safer narcotics. These new pain relievers flowed in greater volume to areas with more physical pain and mental health impairment, but since their apparent safety was an illusion, opioid deaths followed. By the end of the 2000s, restrictions on legal opioids led to further supply-side innovations which created the burgeoning illegal market that accounts for the bulk of opioid deaths today. Because opioid use is easier to start than end, America’s opioid epidemic is likely to persist for some time. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28873 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586547 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David M. Cutler,Edward L. Glaeser. When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic. 2021. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w28873.pdf（671KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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