KRDC Researchers Share Findings in Recent Article Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry
Mike Vuolo and Brian C. Kelly apply fixed-effects models to determine whether county-level dispensing rates affected prescription opioid outcomes as intended and whether changes in rates adversely affected heroin use outcomes by using data from the restricted-access National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s retail opioid prescription database, the Prescription Drug Abuse Policy System, and the U.S. Census.
