Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on rates of fatal crashes in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

State opioid prescribing cap laws, mandatory prescription drug monitoring programme query or enrolment laws and pill mill laws have been implemented across US states to curb high-risk opioid prescribing. Previous studies have measured the impact of these laws on opioid use and overdose death, but no prior work has measured the impact of these laws on fatal crashes in a multistate analysis.

Methods

To study the association between state opioid prescribing laws and fatal crashes, 13 treatment states that implemented a single law of interest in a 4-year period were identified, together with unique groups of control states for each treatment state. Augmented synthetic control analyses were used to estimate the association between each state law and the overall rate of

SUBMITTER: White SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11538364 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature