Nurse practitioner's independent prescriptive authority and opioids abuse
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1Department of Economics and Legal Studies, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.
Health Economics
|June 28, 2019
Abstract:
This paper investigates the impact of legislative changes allowing nurse practitioners to prescribe schedule II controlled substances independently. We find that this legal environment is associated with an increase in treatment admissions for opioid misuse and a decrease in opioid related mortality only when Mandatory Prescription Drugs Monitoring Programs are in place.