| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29139 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29139 |
| The Opioid Safety Initiative and Veteran Suicides | |
| Joshua C. Tibbitts; Benjamin W. Cowan | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-09 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate the relationship between opioid diverting policy and suicides among the veteran population. The opioid epidemic of the past two decades has had devastating health consequences among U.S. veterans and military personnel. In 2013, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) implemented the Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI) with the goal of discouraging prescription opioid dependence among VA patients. Between 2012 and 2017, prescription opioids dispensed by the VA fell 41% (VA, 2018). Because this involved the aggressive curtailing of opioid prescriptions for many VA patients, OSI may have had a detrimental effect on veterans’ mental health leading to suicide in extreme cases. In addition, because rural veterans have much higher rates of VA enrollment, more prescription opioid use and abuse, and lower rates of substance abuse and mental health treatment utilization, we expect any effect of OSI on veteran suicides to be concentrated in rural areas. We find that OSI raised the veteran suicide rate relative to the non-veteran (“civilian”) rate with rural veterans suffering the lion’s share of the increase. We estimate that OSI raised the rural veteran suicide rate by a little over one-third between 2013 and 2018. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29139 |
| 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/586813 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua C. Tibbitts,Benjamin W. Cowan. The Opioid Safety Initiative and Veteran Suicides. 2021. |
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