Drug policy and the public good

T Babor - 2010 - books.google.com
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 …

Opioid epidemic: lessons learned and updated recommendations for misuse involving prescription versus non-prescription opioids

A Bedene, A Dahan, FR Rosendaal… - Expert Review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction In the past decades, the opioid crisis has heavily impacted parts of the US
society and has been followed by an increase in the use of opioids worldwide. It is of …

Supply-side drug policy in the presence of substitutes: Evidence from the introduction of abuse-deterrent opioids

A Alpert, D Powell, RL Pacula - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
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 …

How the reformulation of OxyContin ignited the heroin epidemic

WN Evans, EMJ Lieber, P Power - Review of Economics and …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
We attribute the recent quadrupling of heroin death rates to the August 2010 reformulation of
an oft-abused prescription opioid, OxyContin. The new abuse-deterrent formulation led …

Abuse-deterrent formulations and the prescription opioid abuse epidemic in the United States: lessons learned from OxyContin

TJ Cicero, MS Ellis - JAMA psychiatry, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In an effort to reduce wide-scale abuse of the proprietary oxycodone
hydrochloride formulation OxyContin, an abuse-deterrent formulation (ADF) was introduced …

Prescription opioid poisoning across urban and rural areas: identifying vulnerable groups and geographic areas

M Cerdá, A Gaidus, KM Keyes, W Ponicki, S Martins… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To determine (1) whether prescription opioid poisoning (PO) hospital discharges
spread across space over time,(2) the locations of 'hot‐spots' of PO‐related hospital …

Rates of opioid dispensing and overdose after introduction of abuse-deterrent extended-release oxycodone and withdrawal of propoxyphene

MR Larochelle, F Zhang, D Ross-Degnan… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In the second half of 2010, abuse-deterrent extended-release oxycodone
hydrochloride (OxyContin; Purdue Pharma) was introduced and propoxyphene was …

Routes of abuse of prescription opioid analgesics: a review and assessment of the potential impact of abuse-deterrent formulations

M Gasior, M Bond, R Malamut - Postgraduate medicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Prescription opioid analgesics are an important treatment option for patients with chronic
pain; however, misuse, abuse and diversion of these medications are a major global public …

The effect of an abuse‐deterrent opioid formulation (OxyContin) on opioid abuse‐related outcomes in the postmarketing setting

PM Coplan, HD Chilcoat, SF Butler… - Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An extended‐release opioid analgesic (OxyContin, OC) was reformulated with abuse‐
deterrent properties to deter abuse. This report examines changes in abuse through oral …

The hazards of unwinding the prescription opioid epidemic: Implications for child maltreatment

MF Evans, MC Harris, LM Kessler - American Economic Journal …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Child maltreatment has significant and long-lasting consequences. We examine how two
interventions designed to curtail prescription opioid misuse, the reformulation of OxyContin …