In an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics titled “Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its
Enduring Impacts,” Abby Alpert, William Evans, Ethan Lieber, and David Powell—henceforth …

The article presents an overview of a debate among experts from the fields of public health
and economics on the causes of the opioid abuse epidemic and its possible solutions …

Between 1999 and 2017, 400,000 people died from drug overdoses involving opioids
(American Society of Addiction Medicine 1). This is merely a symptom of a greater …

ABSTRACT The United States has experienced an unprecedented crisis related to the
misuse of and addiction to opioids. As of 2018, 128 Americans die each day of an opioid …

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

Overdose deaths involving opioids have increased dramatically since the 1990s, leading to
the worst drug overdose epidemic in US history, but there is limited empirical evidence …

More than 400,000 people in the United States have died of opioid overdoses since the turn
of the century, a quarter of them in just the past six years. But University of Rochester …

Deaths from legal and illegal drugs are contributing to an almost unprecedented increase in
overall mortality among middle-aged white non-Hispanics. A century of mortality decline …

The opioid epidemic continues to devastate families and communities across the United
States, causing serious health and socioeconomic crises. The high prescription rate for …