Research evaluates overdose death definitions used in statistics and suggests...
06/12/2013Mortality due to drug overdose has risen consistently in the United States since the early 1990s, according to national statistics. But new research reveals that those numbers may not be...
View ArticlePHLR Funds Four Dissertation Studies
03/20/2013Projects investigating the impacts of law on traffic accidents, and the health and wellness of HIV-positive patients, people with mental illness, and children will be supported through...
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Laws
The U.S. federal government has not endorsed the medical benefits of marijuana, and the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 makes marijuana use illegal on the federal level, classifying it as a Schedule...
View ArticleEffects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use
Publication Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013Medical marijuana laws have been suggested as a possible cause of increases in marijuana use among adolescents in the United States. This study evaluated the...
View ArticleRegulating Non-Medical Marijuana: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward
04/17/2014Colorado and Washington State have legalized the commercial production, distribution and sale of marijuana for non-medical use, and a number of other states are considering similar...
View ArticleExperts Offer Lessons from Alcohol and Tobacco for Regulating Marijuana
04/17/2014In a policy environment where there are currently no modern examples of marijuana regulation, policy-makers can rely on lessons learned from alcohol and tobacco regulation, according to a...
View ArticleDeveloping Public Health Regulations for Marijuana: Lessons Learned from...
Publication Date: Thursday, April 17, 2014In a policy environment where there are currently no modern examples of marijuana regulation, policy-makers can rely on lessons learned from alcohol and...
View ArticleFatal Crashes from Drivers Testing Positive for Drugs in the U.S., 1993–2010
Publication Date: Monday, June 23, 2014Illegal drug use is a persistent problem, prescription drug abuse is on the rise, and there is clinical evidence that drug use reduces driving performance. This...
View ArticleEvolution and Convergence of State Laws Governing Controlled Substance...
Corey S. Davis, JD, MSPH, and team, sought to collect and characterize all laws governing the operation of prescription monitoring programs (PMPs), state-level databases that collect patient-specific...
View ArticleWebinar: Expanding Medical Marijuana Laws: Current Policies and Implications...
05/05/2014Twenty-one states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana and eight other states are considering legislation in 2014. As medical marijuana laws expand, state governments and...
View ArticleRecreational Marijuana Laws
This dataset explores currently effective recreational marijuana laws, identifying which state agency regulates recreational marijuana, sale and possession restrictions, what tax rates are applied,...
View ArticleState Pharmacy Laws Affecting Generic Prescription Drug Substitution: Their...
Research has shown that patients are more likely to adhere to prescription regimens when they are prescribed more affordable generic products. However, state-level drug product selection laws and...
View ArticlePublic Health and the Contested Legal Terrain of Electronic Cigarettes
Jurisdictions across the country, acting in the context of a federal regulatory void and wide gaps in knowledge about the safety of e-cigarettes, are trying to decide whether and how to regulate the...
View ArticleImpact of State Opioid Regulation on Pain Management in Medicare Patients
Many states have responded to the abuse of prescription opioids by developing a set of policies limiting access (e.g., prescription drug monitoring programs). While abuse is a continual concern,...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Abuse
Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical attention in the United States, and such pain is frequently treated with prescription opioids. The clinical use of these products...
View ArticlePrimary Care Doctors Report Prescribing Fewer Opioids for Pain
12/09/2014Nine in 10 primary care physicians say that prescription drug abuse is a moderate or big problem in their communities and nearly half say they are less likely to prescribe opioids to treat...
View ArticleMost Primary Care Physicians Are Aware Of Prescription Drug Monitoring...
A new study released on March 2, 2015, in Health Affairs reports that most primary care physicians are aware of prescription drug monitoring programs and have used the data in their practices, but do...
View ArticlePrimary Care Physicians Are Aware of Prescription Monitoring Programs, but...
03/03/2015State-based prescription drug monitoring programs have emerged as one of the primary ways state governments have attempted to address the increasing national concern about prescription drug...
View ArticleDiscrepancies in Addressing Overdose Prevention through Prescription...
Researchers reviewed 47 prescription monitoring program (PMP) websites for overdose content. They found that most PMPs did not address overdose or related terms in available materials and few state...
View ArticleNaloxone for Community Opioid Overdose Reversal
IntroductionDrug overdose is the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States, killing more people every year than car crashes. Opioids — both prescription painkillers and heroin — are...
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