Does drug decriminalization increase unintentional drug overdose deaths?: Early evidence from Oregon Measure 110.
Drug decriminalization
Illicit drugs
Synthetic control method
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN: 1879-1646
Titre abrégé: J Health Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8410622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2023
09 2023
Historique:
received:
20
12
2022
revised:
10
05
2023
accepted:
23
07
2023
medline:
18
9
2023
pubmed:
9
8
2023
entrez:
9
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper evaluates the causal effect of drug decriminalization on unintentional drug overdose deaths in a context with relatively poor access to drug treatment services. Using the synthetic control method, I find that when Oregon decriminalized small amounts of drugs in February 2021, it caused 182 additional unintentional drug overdose deaths to occur in Oregon in 2021. This represents a 23% increase over the number of unintentional drug overdose deaths predicted if Oregon had not decriminalized drugs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37556870
pii: S0167-6296(23)00075-9
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102798
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
102798Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.