The Impact of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Overdose Deaths in the U.S
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چکیده
Opioid overdose is the leading cause of unintentional death in the U.S. Narcan TM (Naloxone) is a prescription medicine that can reverse overdose e ects. This research investigates the e ect of Naloxone access laws on overdose death rates using state and temporal variation in the enactment of these laws. We also explore possible spillover e ects between Naloxone access laws and overdose death rates across states. Our analyses reveal that when broken down by access law provisions, there exists a mixture of positive and negative e ects on overdose death rates depending upon the provision. The results indicate that Naloxone access provisions have regional impacts by in uencing overdose death rates within the state enacted and have a spillover e ect in neighboring states. The magnitude of spillover e ects is larger than direct e ects in the states. Looking across multiple provisions, our ndings provide no statistical evidence that these laws reduce opioid death rates.
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