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 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 …

State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of
state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of …

The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The
relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary …

The United States is experiencing an epidemic of opioid abuse. In response, many states
have increased access to naloxone, a drug that can save lives when administered during an …

Many studies on addiction recovery focus on recovery initiation and short-term outcomes for
alcohol addictions. In this study, we examine associations between three recovery stages …

Policymakers and academics in the US have long debated the root determinants of criminal
behavior. In the 1960s, one dominant strain of thought argued that criminal behavior …

We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on crime. We
leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period …

Background: Public and private systems in the United States and around the World are
impacted by substance use disorders (SUD). Despite recent attempts at bringing top down …

This paper studies the health effects of Swedish prison reforms that held sentences constant
but increased the share of time inmates had to serve. The increased time served did not …