From Addiction to Aggression: The Spillover Effects of Opioid Policies on Intimate Partner Violence

Dhaval Dave, Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin () and Shuo Zhang

No 31609, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We provide the first study of the downstream effects of a key supply-side intervention – the abuse-deterrent reformulation of a widely-diverted opioid, OxyContin – on intimate partner violence (IPV), the most common form of violence experienced by women. Leveraging administrative data on victim-reported incidents to law enforcement, combined with quasi-experimental methods, we find robust evidence that the reformulation significantly reduced IPV exposure for women. This overall decline, however, masks heterogeneity across subpopulations, and a notable uptick in heroin-involved IPV, underscoring the importance of identifying populations at high risk of substitution to illicit opioids and moderating this risk with evidence-based policies.

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Date: 2023-08
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