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AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 77-112Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20160094
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The misuse of prescription opioids has become a serious epidemic in the United States. In response, states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), which record a patient's opioid prescribing history. While few providers participated in early systems, states have recently begun to require providers to access the PDMP under certain circumstances. We find that must access PDMPs significantly reduce measures of misuse in Medicare Part D. In contrast, we find that PDMPs without such provisions have no effect. We find stronger effects when providers are required to access the PDMP under broad circumstances, not only when they are suspicious.
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