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Recreational Marijuana Laws and the Use of Opioids: Evidence from NSDUH Microdata / Mir M. Ali, Chandler B. McClellan, Ryan Mutter, Daniel I. Rees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ali, Mir M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29087.
- NBER working paper series no. w29087
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Recent studies have concluded that state laws legalizing medical marijuana can reduce deaths from opioid overdoses. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a survey uniquely suited to assessing drug misuse, we examine the relationship between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and the use of opioids. Standard difference-in-differences (DD) regression estimates indicate that RMLs do not affect the likelihood of misusing prescription pain relievers such as OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin. Although DD regression estimates provide evidence that state laws legalizing recreational marijuana can reduce the frequency of misusing prescription pain relievers, event-study estimates are noisy and suggest that any effect on the frequency of misuse is likely transitory.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2021.
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