Executive summary The Stanford–Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis
was formed in response to soaring opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the USA and …

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 …

We use large-scale federal survey data linked to administrative death records to investigate
the relationship between Medicaid enrollment and mortality. Our analysis compares …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the study of frictions that individuals
experience, especially in their interactions with the public sector, creating both the potential …

The decline of manufacturing employment is frequently invoked as a key cause of worsening
US population health trends, including rising mortality due to “deaths of despair.” Increasing …

Many causal models make assumptions of" no difference" or" no effect." For example,
difference-in-differences (DID) assumes that there is no trend difference between treatment …

We review quasi-experimental studies that examine the relationship of opioids to health,
healthcare, and crime in the US Our findings align with the general perception that the …

Without the opioid epidemic, American life expectancy would not have declined prior to
2020. The epidemic was sparked by the development and marketing of a new generation of …

Life expectancy for US White men and women declined between 2013 and 2017. Initial
explanations for the decline focused on increases in “deaths of despair”(ie, deaths from …