In response to the opioid crisis, US states have implemented policies to reduce the dispensingof opioids and curb drug mortality. Exploiting a long panel of county-level data, weanalyse the combination of demand- and supply-side state opioid policies and evaluate theirintended effects on opioids...

Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of women, we show that the news coverage of a femicide triggers an increase in calls to the helpline. The effect is detectable in the week following the news and in the province...