Evans, William N.; Lieber, Ethan M.J; Power, Patrick - 2018
-abused prescription opioid, OxyContin. The new abuse-deterrent formulation led many consumers to substitute to an inexpensive alternative …, heroin. Using structural break techniques and variation in substitution risk, we find that opioid consumption stops rising in … opioid mortality -- each prevented opioid death was replaced with a heroin death …