The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
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naloxone; opioids; moral hazard;All these keywords.
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- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2018-05-28 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2018-05-28 (Law & Economics)
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