Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Overdose deaths from prescription opioid pain relievers nearly quadrupled between 1999
and 2010. We study the consequences of one of the largest supply disruptions to date to …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on
local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by …

Abstract Issues Project Stop, a real‐time monitoring program for pseudoephedrine‐
containing medicines, was initiated in 2005 by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in …

We examine the spillover effects of recreational marijuana legalization (RML) in Colorado
and Washington on neighboring states. We find that RML causes a sharp increase in …

Abstract The Dark Net has changed the way drugs are traded globally by shifting trade away
from the streets and onto the web. In this paper, I study whether the shutdown of Dark Net …

Introduction Opioid overdoses are a major public health emergency in the United States.
Despite effective treatments that can save lives, access to and utilization of such treatments …

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized
crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of criminal …

Introduction Rising rates of methamphetamine use among populations using opioids is an
escalating public health concern. The purpose of this manuscript is to identify socioecologic …

We evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino. to, a major platform for unlicensed video
streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a …