Fighting abuse with prescription tracking: mandatory drug monitoring and intimate partner violence.

ABSTRACT: The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non-users through adverse spillovers on children, families, and communities. We study the spillover effects of a supply-side policy aimed at reducing overprescription of opioids on women's well-being by examining its effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States. Using administrative data on incidents reported to law enforcement, in conjunction with quasi-experimental variation in the adoption of stringent mandatory-access prescription drug monitoring programs, we find that these policies generate a downstream benefit for women by significantly reducing their overall exposure to IPV and IPV-involved injuries by 9 to 10%. The strongest effects are experienced by groups w

SUBMITTER: Dave D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12206206 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature