The prescription opioid epidemic has slowly evolved over the past quarter century with
increasingly detrimental consequences for public health. Man-made crises are often …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of the opioid epidemic. Drawing on
recently unsealed records from state litigation against Purdue Pharma, we exploit the …

This is a remarkably useful and comprehensive volume. The title promises, and the book
delivers, a review of the opioid epidemic in the United States, but authors Patel & Rushefsky …

The opioid epidemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that has rapidly spread across
the United States. In the late 1990s, illicit opioid use was a phenomenon clustered in …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of the opioid epidemic. Drawing on
unsealed records from state litigation against Purdue Pharma, we exploit detailed features of …

This paper investigates the role of physicians and their prescriptions in the opioid epidemic.
In order to disentangle the supply behaviour of doctors from the demand behaviour of …

Opioid overdose deaths have risen dramati cally in the United States over the past two
decades. The standard explanation blames expanded prescribing and adver tising of …

Drug overdoses killed over 70,000 people in 2017 and about two-thirds of those deaths
were attributable to opioid overdoses. The opioid epidemic has enlisted researchers from …

Opioids' impacts in the United States over the past two decades have been vast, profound,
and complex. High death rates, overdose rates, and addiction rates manifested across …

While there has been extensive attention to the 'demand side'–or use and adverse
consequences, including mortality–of the 'opioid crisis' presently unfolding across North …