Prescription drug monitoring programs, opioid abuse, and crime

Dave, Dhaval; Deza, Monica; Horn, Brady P.

doi:10.1002/soej.12481

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“…For example, Grecu et al (2019) include a quadratic time trend in their two-way fixed effect model to examine the impact of opioid abuse among young adults. Dave et al (2021) have linear trends and fixed effects to explain the relationship between must-access PDMPs, opioid abuse, and crime. Mallatt (2018) implements linear, quadratic, and cubic time trends to estimate the effect of PDMP on heroin incidents.…”

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Must‐access prescription drug monitoring programs and retail opioid sales

Shakya

Hodges

2022

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This paper examines the effect of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on the retail sales of eight commonly prescribed opioids in the United States. Specifically, we exploit variation in state‐level policies to identify states with “must‐access” versus voluntary PDMPs. Our results suggest that must‐access PDMP implementation does not uniformly reduce prescription retail opioid sales. We also find evidence that must‐access PDMP implementation does not affect the retail sales of two treatment drugs, methadone and buprenorphine. These results suggest that policymakers should consider PDMP implementation as part of a broader response to the opioid crisis rather than a singular policy intervention.

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Section: Interactive Fixed Effect Methodsmentioning

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Must‐access prescription drug monitoring programs and retail opioid sales

Shakya

Hodges

2022

Contemporary Economic Policy

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“…Although arrests are not a perfect measure of juvenile criminal behavior and understate the true level of crime (Gould et al, 2002), such data can serve as a reasonable representation of underlying criminal activity. Further, arrest data are commonly used within the economics literature as they offer the opportunity to isolate offender demographics and thus shed light on questions not otherwise possible to study (Anderson, 2014;Chu, 2015;Dave et al, 2021;Deza & Litwok, 2016;Kline, 2012). Because we do not consider all crimes, instead only those crimes that lead to arrests, our results will likely underestimate the true gains (in terms of reduced crime) attributable to expanding local access to office-based mental healthcare.…”

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Office‐based mental healthcare and juvenile arrests

Deza

Maclean

2022

Health Economics

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Criminal behaviors are common among juveniles with the prevalence of committing criminal activities peaking during adolescence. Among industrialized countries, the United States, the focus of our study, is the leader in terms of the juvenile incarceration rate (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2013) with over 70,000 juveniles in custody on a given day and an average direct annual cost of $112,000 per juvenile (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2011; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2011). 1 In 2019, juveniles accounted for 7.1%, 9.8%, and 11.2% of total, violent, and property arrests in the U.S. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2020). 2 For the juvenile, being convicted of a crime and associated penalties impedes education, health, and social development, and later earnings. Further, society loses future productivity, tax revenues, and so forth from the incarceration of juveniles. Collectively, these costs are estimated to be $9.8B-$26.7B per year (Justice Policy Institute, 2014). 3 Mental health disorders (MHDs) are the most costly health condition among juveniles, accounting for $16.7B in 2021 with nearly half of this treatment financed by Medicaid (a public insurance program for the poor in the U.S. [Soni, 2018]). 4 The most common MHDs among juveniles are anxiety, depression, and conduct disorder (Ghandour et al., 2019), with prevalence rates of 6.1%, 10.5%, and 7.5% among 12-17 year olds in 2018. Alarmingly, while these conditions can be mitigated with early diagnosis and treatment (Satcher, 2001), juvenile MHDs are increasing over time (e.g., the juvenile suicide rate has increased each year since 2010 [Ruch et al., 2019]). The age profile of criminal trajectories mirrors development of MHDs closely, as adolescence

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“…20 Similarly, Swensen (2015) shows that fatal drug overdoses decrease as treatment access increases. More generally, Dave et al (2018) document-using variation offered by state adoption of PDMPs-that reducing the supply of prescription opioids decreases violent crime. Several other recent studies leveraging variation from policy changes or randomized control trials document broadly similar patterns of declines in crime as access to opioids falls (Meinhofer 2016;Deiana and giua 2018;Smart and Reuter 2021).…”

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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies

Maclean¹,

Mallatt²,

Ruhm³

et al. 2022

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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We review quasi-experimental studies that examine the relationship of opioids to health, healthcare, and crime in the U.S. Our findings align with the general perception that the opioid crisis has negatively impacted health and increased healthcare costs; we find limited evidence that appropriate opioid use enhances work capacity or carries other benefits. Extant studies suggest that opioids also increase crime, although the link is not as strong as has been observed in previous drug epidemics. This finding is consistent with the fact that opioids are pharmacologically different than stimulant substances like cocaine that have dominated earlier drug epidemic periods. We argue that the healthcare system has a potentially important role to play in combatting the opioid crisis, largely through the provision of treatments that address underlying addiction, and through the development of strategies to effectively curtail access to the drugs.

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Prescription drug monitoring programs, opioid abuse, and crime

Cited by 27 publications

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Must‐access prescription drug monitoring programs and retail opioid sales

Must‐access prescription drug monitoring programs and retail opioid sales

Office‐based mental healthcare and juvenile arrests

The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review of Quasi-Experimental Economic Studies

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