The Evolution of US Policy Responses to the Opioid Epidemic

Richard G. Frank

Monograph from Office of Health Economics

Abstract: The ‘opioid epidemic’ in the US is the most recent drug-abuse challenge from the misuse of prescription medicines or the use of illicit drugs. It is a particularly difficult challenge because thousands of patients benefit from the prescription pain killers that originally fuelled the crisis. Ceasing production and use of such medications, then, is not the right answer. But the crisis has recently entered a more lethal phase, one that involves the use of illicit synthetic opioids which are both more addictive and more deadly.

Keywords: The; Evolution; of; US; Policy; Responses; to; the; Opioid; Epidemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-03-01
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